The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 238
And tears sprung likewise to the eyes of the sultan’s wife, and she said, ‘I am sorry for you, my husband, that you should deal so wickedly with that gazelle’; but he only answered, ‘Old woman, pay no heed to the talk of the mistress: tell it to perish out of the way.
Who acts: tears, wife, I, you, husband, Old woman · What happens: spring, say, be, deal, answer, pay · To what, where: eyes, Old woman, heed, way · 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 (tears, wife, I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sprung | cc |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprung | nsubj |
| 3 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 sprung | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sprung | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sultan | det |
| 10 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 sultan | case |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprung | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 sorry | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sorry | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sorry | cop |
| 21 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 sorry | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 husband | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 husband | nmod:poss |
| 26 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 you | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deal | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 deal | mark |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 deal | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 deal | aux |
| 31 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 sorry | parataxis |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 wickedly | advmod |
| 33 | wickedly | wickedly | ADV | _ | 31 deal | advmod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 gazelle | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 gazelle | det |
| 36 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 deal | obl |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 gazelle | punct |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 answered | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 answered | cc |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 answered | nsubj |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 answered | advmod |
| 42 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sprung | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 woman | punct |
| 44 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 woman | punct |
| 45 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 woman | amod |
| 46 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 answered | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 pay | punct |
| 48 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 woman | acl:relcl |
| 49 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 50 heed | det |
| 50 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pay | obj |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 talk | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 talk | det |
| 53 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 pay | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 mistress | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 mistress | det |
| 56 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 talk | nmod |
| 57 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 58 tell | punct |
| 58 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 answered | conj |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 tell | obj |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 perish | mark |
| 61 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 tell | xcomp |
| 62 | out | out | ADP | _ | 65 way | case |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 65 way | case |
| 64 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 way | det |
| 65 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 perish | obl |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | participle | tears | the eyes of the sultan's wife | likewise property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to eye=Destination | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | for you; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | deal | should | you | with that gazelle; wickedly property | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gazelle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | husband | Old woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | pay | present | Old woman not said here | no heed | to the talk of the mistress | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | husband not said here | heed | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 8 | perish not said to happen | to-infinitive | husband not said here | the way | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 9 | talk | the mistress | nom talk «communication intransitive»: of=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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