The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 234
So the old woman returned, and found the master and the mistress drinking coffee.
Who acts: old woman, master · What happens: return, find, drink · To what, where: master, coffee
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 (old woman, master), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 woman | amod |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 found | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 master | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 mistress | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mistress | det |
| 13 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 master | conj |
| 14 | drinking | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 master | acl |
| 15 | coffee | coffee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drinking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the old woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the old woman not said here | the master and the mistress | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drink | gerund | the master and the mistress not said here | coffee | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient |
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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