The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 250

So she went, and spoke as the gazelle had bidden her; but he answered, ‘I have told you to trouble me no more.’

Who acts: life, part, I · What happens: go, speak, bid, answer, tell · To what, where: gazelle, trouble · 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 (life, part, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 spoke	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spoke	cc
6	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 bidden	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gazelle	det
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bidden	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bidden	aux
11	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spoke	ccomp
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 bidden	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 told	aux
21	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 answered	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 trouble	mark
24	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 told	iobj
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 trouble	obj
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 trouble	amod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	life			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	speak speech: other	past	life not said here			tree rules
3	bid	past · perfect · passive		the gazelle		tree rules
4	answer speech: assert	past	part			tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I		trouble	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient trouble=Topic

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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