The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 41

Directly the gazelle had come to this conclusion, it picked up the diamond in its mouth, and went on and on and on through the forest, but found no place where a rich man was likely to dwell.

Who acts: gazelle, grass, rich man · What happens: come, pick up, go, find, be, dwell · To what, where: conclusion, diamond, mouth, forest, place

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, rich 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 conclusion	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 conclusion	det
8	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 picked	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 picked	nsubj
11	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 picked	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 diamond	det
14	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 went	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 went	cc
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 picked	conj
21	on	on	ADV	_	20 went	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 on	cc
23	on	on	ADV	_	21 on	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 on	cc
25	on	on	ADV	_	21 on	conj
26	through	through	ADP	_	28 forest	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 picked	conj
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
34	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	39 likely	advmod
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
36	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 man	amod
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 likely	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 likely	cop
39	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 found	xcomp
40	to	to	PART	_	41 dwell	mark
41	dwell	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 likely	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past · perfect	the gazelle		this conclusion	directly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to conclusion=Initial_Location
2	pick up	past	grass	the diamond	grass's mouth		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diamond=Topic
3	go	past	grass not said here		the forest		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial_Location
4	find	past	grass not said here	no place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic
5	is	past	a rich man			likely property	tree rules
6	dwell	to-infinitive	a rich man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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