The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 246

It paused for a moment, and then went on, ‘Mother, of the goods that are in this house, what do I eat?

Who acts: face, that, I · What happens: pause, go on, be, eat · To what, where: Mother, house

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 (face, that, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paused	nsubj
2	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 moment	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paused	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paused	conj
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Mother	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Mother	punct
13	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goods	punct
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 goods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 goods	det
17	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 went	obl
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 house	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 house	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 house	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 house	det
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goods	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eat	punct
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 eat	obj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 eat	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 eat	nsubj
27	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 house	parataxis
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pause	past	face			moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	go on	past	face not said here	Mother		then	of the goods	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	that		this house			tree rules
4	eat	present · do-support	I	this house				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient

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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