The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 251
But his wife’s heart was sore, and she said to him: ‘Ah, master, what has the gazelle done to you?
Who acts: heart, wife, master · What happens: be, say, have, do · To what, where: part, gazelle, you · 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 (heart, wife, master), 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 | _ | 7 sore | cc |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 wife | case |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sore | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sore | cop |
| 7 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sore | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 master | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 master | punct |
| 16 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 18 master | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 master | acl:relcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gazelle | det |
| 23 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 gazelle | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 done | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | part's wife's heart | sore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | part | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | master | the gazelle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | participle | the gazelle not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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