The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 221

And when the gazelle saw her it said, ‘Mother, what is it, and why do you cry?

Who acts: gazelle, rice, you · What happens: see, say, be, cry · To what, where: woman, Mother, rice · 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 (gazelle, rice, you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gazelle	det
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	advcl
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Mother	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Mother	punct
11	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 Mother	nmod
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 it	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cry	cc
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 cry	advmod
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 cry	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 cry	nsubj
21	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past	the gazelle	woman	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	rice	Mother	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		rice	tree rules
4	cry speech: express	present · do-support	you		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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