The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 42
For two more days it ran, from dawn to dark, till at last early one morning it caught sight of a large town, which gave it fresh courage.
Who acts: grass, large town · What happens: run, catch, give, sight · To what, where: sight, grass, large town
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, large town), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dawn | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 dawn | case |
| 9 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dark | case |
| 11 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dawn | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 morning | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 morning | mark |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 morning | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 16 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 morning | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 morning | compound |
| 18 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caught | nsubj |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 morning | acl:relcl |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 town | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 town | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 town | amod |
| 25 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sight | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 gave | punct |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 town | acl:relcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | obj |
| 30 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 courage | amod |
| 31 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | grass | dawn; day; morning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | grass | sight of a large town | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | a large town | grass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient courage=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sight | a large town | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/42/