The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 282
And when he saw the gazelle lying there he wept afresh, and took it in his arms and carried it away.
Who acts: sultan, gazelle · What happens: see, lie, weep, take, carry away · To what, where: gazelle, well, arms
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 (sultan, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gazelle | det |
| 6 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 gazelle | acl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lying | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wept | nsubj |
| 10 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lying | acl:relcl |
| 11 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wept | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 arms | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carried | cc |
| 20 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 carried | obj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 carried | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | sultan | the gazelle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gazelle=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the gazelle not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | sultan | afresh property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | past | sultan not said here | well | sultan's arms | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in arm=Location | |||
| 5 | carry away | past | sultan not said here | well | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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