The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 231
The gazelle kept silence for a few moments.
Who acts: gazelle · What happens: keep · To what, where: silence
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gazelle | det |
| 2 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kept | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moments | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moments | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 moments | amod |
| 8 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kept | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the gazelle | silence | moment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/231/