The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 228
And he answered her, ‘Silly chatterer, your words are many.
Who acts: heart, words, your · What happens: answer, be, word · To what, where: Darai
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 (heart, words, your), 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 | _ | 3 answered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 answered | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chatterer | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 chatterer | punct |
| 7 | Silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chatterer | amod |
| 8 | chatterer | chatterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 many | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 many | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 many | cop |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 chatterer | appos |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | heart | Darai | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your words | many property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | word | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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