The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 262

And the maidservant did as her mistress bade her, and said what her mistress had told her to say, but the gazelle made no answer, but turned over on its side and died quietly.

Who acts: maidservant, mistress, gazelle · What happens: do, bade, say, tell, make, turn over · To what, where: woman, mistress, answer, side · 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 (maidservant, mistress, gazelle), 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	_	4 did	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maidservant	det
3	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 bade	mark
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mistress	nmod:poss
7	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bade	nsubj
8	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bade	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bade	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 told	obj
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mistress	nmod:poss
15	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 told	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 made	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 made	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 gazelle	det
24	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	nsubj
25	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 answer	det
27	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 made	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 turned	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 turned	cc
30	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 made	conj
31	over	over	ADP	_	30 turned	compound:prt
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 side	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 side	nmod:poss
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turned	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 died	cc
36	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 turned	conj
37	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	36 died	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	the maidservant					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bade	past	woman's mistress	woman				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	woman's mistress not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		woman's mistress	woman			tree rules
5	say speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	woman's mistress not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	make	past	the gazelle	no answer				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
7	turn over	past	the gazelle not said here			cloth's side		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
8	die	past	the gazelle not said here				quietly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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