The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 236

The heart of the old woman wept as she heard such words, because she saw that when the gazelle first came to that town it was ready to sell its life to buy wealth for its master.

Who acts: heart, woman, gazelle, it · What happens: weep, hear, see, come, be, sell · To what, where: such words, town, life, wealth · 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 (heart, woman, gazelle, it), 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 heart	det
2	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wept	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heart	nmod
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 heard	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wept	advcl
11	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 words	amod
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 heard	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
14	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 saw	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 ready	mark
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 came	advmod
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gazelle	det
20	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 came	advmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ready	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 town	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 town	det
25	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ready	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ready	cop
28	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 sell	mark
30	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ready	xcomp
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 life	nmod:poss
32	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sell	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 buy	mark
34	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 sell	advcl
35	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 buy	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 master	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 master	nmod:poss
38	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 buy	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	past	the heart of the old woman				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	past	woman	such words			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
3	see	past	woman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	come	past	the gazelle		that town	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location
5	is	past	it			ready property	tree rules
6	sell	to-infinitive		tongue's life			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
7	buy	to-infinitive		wealth		for tongue's master	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme for master=Beneficiary

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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