The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 243
And she took it in her arms and said, ‘My son, the good you did is lost; there remains only patience.’
Who acts: woman, you · What happens: take, say, do, lose, remain · To what, where: blood, arms, patience · 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 (woman, 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 took | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 arms | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arms | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 12 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 good | det |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 son | amod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | ccomp |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lost | aux:pass |
| 20 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 good | csubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 remains | punct |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 remains | expl |
| 23 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 24 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 patience | advmod |
| 25 | patience | patience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 remains | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | woman | blood | woman's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lose | present · passive | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | remain | present | woman not said here | patience | there | vn exist-47.1 «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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