The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 266

It was the gazelle who came to ask me of my father, it was the gazelle who brought me from my father, and I was given in charge to the gazelle by my father.’

Who acts: weeping, gazelle, father · What happens: be, come, ask, bring, give · To what, where: gazelle, me, I, charge

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 (weeping, gazelle, father), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gazelle	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazelle	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gazelle	det
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gazelle	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ask	mark
8	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 ask	iobj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gazelle	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gazelle	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gazelle	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 gazelle	det
17	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ask	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 brought	nsubj
19	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 gazelle	acl:relcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 brought	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brought	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 given	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 given	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 given	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux:pass
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gazelle	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 charge	case
30	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 gazelle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gazelle	det
33	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obl
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 father	case
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 father	nmod:poss
36	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gazelle	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 gazelle	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	weeping	the gazelle				tree rules
2	come	past	the gazelle					tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the gazelle not said here		me		of my father	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	is a	past	weeping	the gazelle				tree rules
5	bring	past	the gazelle	me			from my father	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from father=Initial_Location
6	give	past · passive	my father	I	the gazelle	charge		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to gazelle=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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