The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 272
‘The gazelle did you much good, and if anyone says he could have done more for you he is a liar!
Who acts: gazelle, anyone, voice · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: you, more, liar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (gazelle, anyone, voice), 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 did | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 says | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 did | obj |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 good | advmod |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 did | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 says | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 says | mark |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 says | nsubj |
| 12 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 done | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 done | aux |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 says | ccomp |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 done | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 done | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 liar | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 liar | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 liar | det |
| 23 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 done | parataxis |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the gazelle | you | good property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | anyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | could · perfect | voice | more | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | is a | present | voice | a liar | tree rules |
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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