The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 244
And it said, ‘Mother, I shall die, for my soul is full of anger and bitterness.
Who acts: blood, I, soul · What happens: say, die, be · To what, where: Mother · 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 (blood, I, soul), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mother | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Mother | punct |
| 6 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 die | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 die | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 die | aux |
| 10 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 full | mark |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 die | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 anger | case |
| 18 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bitterness | cc |
| 20 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anger | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | blood | Mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | shall | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is | present | my soul | of anger and bitterness; full property | tree rules |
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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