The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 220

The old woman saw she had spoken vainly, and went back weeping to the gazelle.

Who acts: old woman, woman · What happens: see, speak, go back, weep · To what, where: gazelle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old woman, woman), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 spoken	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoken	aux
7	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 saw	ccomp
8	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	7 spoken	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
13	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 went	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 gazelle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 gazelle	det
16	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 weeping	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the old woman			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	speak speech: other	past · perfect	woman		vainly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go back	past	the old woman not said here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
4	weep	gerund	the old woman not said here	the gazelle		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to gazelle=Recipient

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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