The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 226

And the master told me to take some red millet and make you gruel, but the mistress said, ‘Eh, master, the gazelle is the apple of your eye; you have no child, this gazelle is like your child; so this gazelle is not one to be done evil to.

Who acts: master, you, mistress, gazelle · What happens: tell, take, make, gruel, say, be · To what, where: me, red millet, you, apple, child, one · 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 (master, you, mistress, gazelle), 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 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 master	det
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 take	mark
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 told	xcomp
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 millet	det
9	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 millet	amod
10	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 take	conj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	gruel	gruel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 mistress	det
18	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Eh	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Eh	punct
22	Eh	eh	INTJ	_	19 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 master	punct
24	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Eh	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 apple	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gazelle	det
27	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 apple	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 apple	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 apple	det
30	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 master	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 eye	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 eye	nmod:poss
33	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 apple	nmod
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 have	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
37	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	38 child	det
38	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 child	punct
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 gazelle	det
41	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 child	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 child	cop
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 child	case
44	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 child	nmod:poss
45	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 child	conj
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 done	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	52 one	advmod
48	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	49 gazelle	det
49	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 one	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 one	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 one	advmod
52	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 done	nsubj:pass
53	to	to	PART	_	55 done	mark
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	55 done	aux:pass
55	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 told	conj
56	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 done	xcomp
57	to	to	PART	_	56 evil	xcomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the master		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	the master not said here	some red millet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millet=Theme
3	make	infinitive	the master not said here	you			tree rules
4	gruel	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the mistress				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	the gazelle	the apple		of your eye	tree rules
7	have	present	you	no child and your child			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
8	is	present	this gazelle			like your child	tree rules
9	not is a	present	this gazelle	one			tree rules
10	do	to-infinitive · passive		one		evil property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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