The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 268
‘We never saw you, we saw the gazelle.
Who acts: We · What happens: not see, see · To what, where: you, gazelle
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gazelle | det |
| 10 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | We | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | we | the gazelle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gazelle=Stimulus |
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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