The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 248
But did not the elders say, “He that does good like a mother!”’
Who acts: elders, part · What happens: do, not say, be · 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 (elders, part), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 did | cc |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 say | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elders | det |
| 5 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 say | nsubj |
| 6 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 good | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 He | obj |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 say | ccomp |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mother | det |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 good | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not say speech: express | present | the elders | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | part | like a mother; good 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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