The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 225

And his wife asked what was the matter, and I told her that there was not a part of your body without pain.

Who acts: wife, I, part · What happens: ask, tell, be · To what, where: wife · 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 (wife, I, part), 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	_	4 asked	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wife	nmod:poss
3	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 asked	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 matter	det
8	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 was	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asked	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 was	mark
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 was	expl
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 told	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 part	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 part	det
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 body	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 body	nmod:poss
22	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 part	nmod
23	without	without	ADP	_	24 pain	case
24	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 part	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	name's wife			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	I	wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past	a part of your body without pain		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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