The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 29
When the sun had set, the gazelle came back, and the poor man was very glad, and they lay down and slept side by side.
Who acts: gazelle, poor man, Gazelles · What happens: set, come back, be, lay down, sleep · To what, where: sun, side
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, poor man, Gazelles), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gazelle | det |
| 8 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | parataxis |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 glad | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 glad | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 glad | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 glad | advmod |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 glad | advcl |
| 23 | down | down | ADV | _ | 22 lay | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 slept | cc |
| 25 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lay | conj |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slept | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 side | case |
| 28 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 slept | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | come back | past | the gazelle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the poor man | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lay down | present | Gazelles = gazelle | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | sleep | past | Gazelles = gazelle not said here | side | by side | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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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