The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 270
So, then, when such an one departs from this world we weep for ourselves, we do not weep for the gazelle.’
Who acts: one, we · What happens: depart, weep, not weep · To what, where: world
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 (one, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 21 weep | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 weep | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 departs | mark |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det:predet |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 departs | nsubj |
| 9 | departs | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 weep | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 departs | obl |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 weep | nsubj |
| 14 | weep | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 world | acl:relcl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ourselves | case |
| 16 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 weep | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 departs | punct |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 weep | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 weep | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 weep | advmod |
| 21 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 gazelle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 gazelle | det |
| 24 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weep | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 weep | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | present | such one | this world | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from world=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | weep | present | we | this world not said here | for ourselves | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent world=Theme | |||
| 3 | not weep | present · do-support | we | then | for the gazelle | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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