The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 284

‘I too have eaten no food, neither have I drunk water, since the day the gazelle died.

Who acts: I, gazelle · What happens: eat, drink, die · To what, where: food, water, day

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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eaten	nsubj
3	too	too	ADV	_	5 eaten	advmod
4	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eaten	aux
5	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eaten	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drunk	punct
9	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 drunk	cc:preconj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 drunk	aux
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 drunk	nsubj
12	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 eaten	parataxis
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drunk	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 day	punct
15	since	since	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drunk	obl:unmarked
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 gazelle	det
19	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 died	nsubj
20	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 day	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	eat	present · perfect	I	no food		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	drink	present · perfect	I	water	day	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	die	past	the gazelle	the day not said here		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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