The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 274

The gazelle has died from bitterness of soul, and you ordered your slaves to throw it into the well.

Who acts: gazelle, you, slaves · What happens: die, order, throw · To what, where: bitterness, slaves, slave, well

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, you, slaves), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gazelle	det
2	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 died	aux
4	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 bitterness	case
6	bitterness	bitterness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 soul	case
8	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bitterness	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ordered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ordered	cc
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 ordered	nsubj
12	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 died	advcl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 slaves	nmod:poss
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ordered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 throw	mark
16	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ordered	xcomp
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 throw	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 well	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 well	det
20	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 throw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	die	present · perfect	the gazelle		bitterness of soul		vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from bitterness=Causer
2	order	past	you	your slaves			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	your slaves not said here	slave		into the well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into well=Result

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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