The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 242
The old woman went downstairs, and there lay the gazelle, blood flowing from its nostrils.
Who acts: old woman, blood · What happens: go, lie, flow · To what, where: gazelle, nostrils
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, blood), 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 | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 lay | advmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gazelle | det |
| 11 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blood | punct |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gazelle | conj |
| 14 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 blood | acl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 nostrils | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 nostrils | nmod:poss |
| 17 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flowing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the old woman | downstairs property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the old woman not said here | the gazelle and blood | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gazelle=Theme | |||
| 3 | flow | gerund | blood not said here | blood's nostrils | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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