The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 39

‘Oh, ho!’ said the gazelle to itself, ‘perhaps now I can do something for my master who bought me with all the money he had; but I must be careful or they will say he has stolen it.

Who acts: ho, I, master, Gazelles · What happens: say, do, buy, have, be, steal · To what, where: gazelle, grass, something, me, money · 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 (ho, I, master, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 ho	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	ho	ho	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 ho	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gazelle	det
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 itself	case
11	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 do	punct
14	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	15 now	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 do	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 do	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 master	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 master	nmod:poss
22	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 do	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 bought	nsubj
24	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 master	acl:relcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bought	iobj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 money	case
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 money	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 money	det
29	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bought	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 money	acl:relcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 careful	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 careful	cc
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 careful	nsubj
35	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 careful	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 careful	cop
37	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	parataxis
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 say	cc
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 say	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 say	aux
41	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 careful	conj
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stolen	nsubj
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 stolen	aux
44	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 say	ccomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 stolen	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	ho	the gazelle	grass			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic to itself=Recipient
2	do	can	I	something		now	for my master	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality
3	buy	past	my master		me		with all money	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	have	past	ho	all money not said here				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
5	is	must	I				careful property	tree rules
6	say speech: assert	future	Gazelles = gazelle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	steal	present · perfect	ho	grass				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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