The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 258

The old woman stayed no longer, and went back to the gazelle, followed secretly by the mistress, who called a maidservant and bade her take some milk and rice and cook it for the gazelle.

Who acts: old woman, mistress · What happens: stay, go back, follow, call, take, cook · To what, where: maidservant, milk · 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 (old woman, mistress), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stayed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stayed	conj
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 gazelle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gazelle	det
13	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 followed	punct
15	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	conj
16	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	15 followed	advmod
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 mistress	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mistress	det
19	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 followed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 called	nsubj
22	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 mistress	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 maidservant	det
24	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 called	xcomp
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bade	cc
26	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 maidservant	conj
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 maidservant	punct
28	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 called	xcomp
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 milk	det
30	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 take	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rice	cc
32	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 milk	conj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 cook	cc
34	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 take	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cook	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 gazelle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 gazelle	det
38	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cook	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the old woman		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go back	past	the old woman not said here		to the gazelle result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to gazelle=Result
3	follow	participle	the old woman not said here		by the mistress; secretly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mistress=Location
4	call	past	the mistress	a maidservant and bade		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	take	infinitive	the mistress not said here	some milk and rice		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
6	cook	infinitive	the mistress not said here	milk	for the gazelle	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for gazelle=Beneficiary

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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