The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 219
‘My wife, your tongue is long,’ and he left the room.
Who acts: wife, body · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: room
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 long | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tongue | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | conj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | cop |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 long | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 room | det |
| 15 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My wife and your tongue | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | body | the room | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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