The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 223

But still the old woman would not speak, and the gazelle prayed her to let it know the words of the master.

Who acts: old woman, gazelle, answer · What happens: not speak, pray, let, know, word · To what, where: woman, answer, words, master · 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, gazelle, answer), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 speak	cc
2	still	still	ADV	_	8 speak	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 woman	det
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 woman	amod
5	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 speak	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 speak	advmod
8	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prayed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prayed	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gazelle	det
12	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prayed	nsubj
13	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 speak	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prayed	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 prayed	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 words	det
20	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 know	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 master	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 master	det
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 words	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 speak	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	would	the old woman		still	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pray	past	the gazelle	woman		tree rules
3	let	to-infinitive	the gazelle not said here	answer		tree rules
4	know	infinitive	answer not said here	the words of the master		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
5	word			the master		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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