The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 269
It was the gazelle who met with trouble here, it was the gazelle who met with rest here.
Who acts: soul, gazelle · What happens: be, meet · To what, where: 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 (soul, 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 | 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 met | nsubj |
| 6 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gazelle | acl:relcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 trouble | case |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 met | obl |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 met | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gazelle | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gazelle | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gazelle | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gazelle | det |
| 14 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gazelle | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 met | nsubj |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gazelle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obl |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 met | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | soul | the gazelle and the gazelle | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the gazelle and the gazelle | here | with trouble | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with trouble=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | is a | past | soul | the gazelle | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | the gazelle | here | with rest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rest=Co-Agent |
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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