The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 265
But his wife answered, ‘Master, we looked upon that gazelle as we looked upon you.
Who acts: wife, we · What happens: answer, look · To what, where: Master
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 (wife, we), 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 | _ | 4 answered | 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 | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Master | punct |
| 7 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 gazelle | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 gazelle | det |
| 13 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 looked | mark |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | sultan's wife | Master | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | look | past | we | upon that gazelle | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon gazelle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | past | we | upon you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon you=Theme |
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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