The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 37
So for five days the gazelle set off at daybreak for this cool spot, but on the fifth day it came to a place where the grass was bitter, and it did not like it, and scratched, hoping to tear away the bad blades.
Who acts: gazelle, grass · What happens: set off, come, be, not like, scratch, hope · To what, where: daybreak, place, bad blades
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, grass), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 3 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 set | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gazelle | det |
| 6 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 daybreak | case |
| 10 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 spot | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 spot | det |
| 13 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spot | amod |
| 14 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 came | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 came | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 bitter | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 grass | det |
| 28 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 bitter | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 bitter | cop |
| 30 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 like | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 like | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 like | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 like | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 like | advmod |
| 36 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 like | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 scratched | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 scratched | cc |
| 40 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hoping | punct |
| 42 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 scratched | advcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 tear | mark |
| 44 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 hoping | xcomp |
| 45 | away | away | ADP | _ | 44 tear | compound:prt |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 blades | det |
| 47 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 blades | amod |
| 48 | blades | blade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 tear | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the gazelle | daybreak | day | for this cool spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | grass | a place | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | the grass | bitter property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not like | past · do-support | grass | place | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | scratch | past | the gazelle not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | hope | gerund | the gazelle not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | tear away not said to happen | to-infinitive | the gazelle not said here | the bad blades | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location blade=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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