The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 240
Shall a creature that I bought for an eighth trouble me from morning till night?
Who acts: I · What happens: buy · To what, where: creature, me
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 (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 | Shall | shall | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 creature | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 creature | det |
| 3 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 bought | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bought | nsubj |
| 6 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 creature | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 trouble | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trouble | det |
| 9 | eighth | eighth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 trouble | amod |
| 10 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bought | iobj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 morning | case |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obl |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 night | case |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bought | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 creature | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past | I | shall creature | me | morning; night | for a eighth trouble | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary that=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.
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