The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 224

At last she said: ‘I went upstairs and found the mistress and the master sitting on a couch, and he asked me what I wanted, and I told him that you, his slave, were ill.

Who acts: woman, I, master, name · What happens: say, go, find, sit, ask, want · To what, where: last, mistress, couch, me, name · 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 (woman, I, master, name), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
9	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mistress	det
13	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 found	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 master	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 master	det
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mistress	conj
17	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 master	acl
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 couch	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couch	det
20	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sitting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 asked	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 asked	nsubj
24	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 asked	iobj
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 asked	obj
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 wanted	nsubj
28	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 told	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 told	cc
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 told	nsubj
32	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 told	iobj
34	that	that	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 told	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 slave	punct
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 slave	nmod:poss
38	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 told	conj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ill	punct
40	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 ill	cop
41	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 told	advcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	woman			last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	I				upstairs property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past	I not said here	the mistress and the master				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=Topic
4	sit	gerund	the master not said here			a couch		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	name		me			tree rules
6	want	past	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	tell speech: assert	past	I		name		that you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
8	is	past	I not said here				ill property	tree rules

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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