The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 260
And if the gazelle wants more, let it ask me, and not its master.
Who acts: gazelle, you, cloth · What happens: want, let, ask · To what, where: more, cloth, me
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 (gazelle, you, cloth), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 let | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wants | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gazelle | det |
| 4 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wants | nsubj |
| 5 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | advcl |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 wants | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wants | punct |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 master | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 master | advmod |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | the gazelle | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | imperative | you not said here | cloth | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | cloth not said here | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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