The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 34
‘Good evening, my master; how have you fared all day?
Who acts: you · What happens: fare
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 (you), 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 | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fared | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 master | nmod:poss |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | appos |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 fared | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 fared | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fared | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fared | nsubj |
| 11 | fared | fare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fared | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 fared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fare | present · perfect | you | day; evening | 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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