The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 31

And the man replied, ‘Go, my son,’ but he felt very lonely without his gazelle, and set out sooner than usual for the dust-heap where he generally found most corn.

Who acts: man · What happens: reply, go, feel, set out, find · To what, where: most corn · 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 (man), 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 replied	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
7	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 replied	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 son	nmod:poss
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Go	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 Go	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 felt	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 replied	conj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 lonely	advmod
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 felt	xcomp
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 gazelle	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 gazelle	nmod:poss
20	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 felt	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 set	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 set	cc
23	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 replied	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 set	compound:prt
25	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 set	advmod
26	than	than	ADP	_	27 usual	case
27	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sooner	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	32 heap	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 heap	det
30	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 heap	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 dust	punct
32	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sooner	obl
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 found	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 found	nsubj
35	generally	generally	ADV	_	36 found	advmod
36	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 heap	acl:relcl
37	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 corn	amod
38	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 found	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the man			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive			my son vocative	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feel	past	man		without man's gazelle; lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	set out	infinitive	the man not said here		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	man	most corn	generally property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Topic

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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