The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 232

Then it said, ‘The elders said, “One that does good like a mother,” and I have done him good, and I have got this that the elders said.

Who acts: silence, elders, I · What happens: say, be, do, get · To what, where: enough, this · 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 (silence, elders, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 elders	det
7	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 One	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 One	punct
11	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 said	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 good	nsubj
13	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 good	cop
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 One	acl:relcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 mother	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 good	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 good	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 done	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 done	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 done	aux
23	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 done	iobj
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 done	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 got	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 got	aux
30	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	conj
31	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 got	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 elders	det
34	elders	elder	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 got	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	silence			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	past	the elders					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present					like a mother; good property	tree rules
4	do	present · perfect	I		enough		good property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
5	get	present · perfect	I	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	the elders					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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