The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 36
It is far away in the forest, and no one knows of it but me, and to-morrow I shall go again.’
Who acts: grass, one, I · What happens: be, know, go · To what, where: forest, morrow
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 (grass, one, I), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 forest | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forest | cop |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 away | advmod |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 forest | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 forest | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knows | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knows | cc |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knows | nsubj |
| 12 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forest | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knows | obl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 me | cc |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 knows | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 go | cc |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 knows | conj |
| 25 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 go | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 forest | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 forest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | grass | the forest | away property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | present | no one | of grass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | shall | I | morrow | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location |
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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