The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 23

‘Never mind that,’ said the gazelle, ‘but listen to what I say!

Who acts: gazelle, I · What happens: not mind, say, listen · To what, where: that, gazelle · 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 (gazelle, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
2	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 mind	advmod
3	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 mind	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 mind	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gazelle	det
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 listen	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 listen	cc
13	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gazelle	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 what	case
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 listen	obl
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 what	acl:relcl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not mind	infinitive		that		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the gazelle		tree rules
3	listen	infinitive	the gazelle not said here		to the gazelle	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to what=Theme
4	say speech: assert	present	I			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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