The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 227
This is a gazelle in form, but not a gazelle in heart; he is in all things better than a gentleman, be he who he may.’
Who acts: This, heart · What happens: be · To what, where: gazelle, form, things
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 (This, heart), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 gazelle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazelle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 gazelle | det |
| 4 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazelle | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gazelle | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 gazelle | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 gazelle | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gazelle | det |
| 11 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazelle | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazelle | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 better | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 better | obl |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 gazelle | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 gentleman | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gentleman | det |
| 23 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 better | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gentleman | punct |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 may | cop |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 may | nsubj |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 may | nsubj |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 may | nsubj |
| 29 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 better | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 better | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a gazelle but a gazelle in heart | form | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | heart | all things | than a gentleman; good 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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