The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 43
The people were standing about the streets doing their marketing, when the gazelle bounded past, the diamond flashing as it ran.
Who acts: people, streets, gazelle, diamond, grass · What happens: stand, do, bound, flash, run, market · To what, where: marketing, diamond
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 (people, streets, gazelle, diamond), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 standing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | aux |
| 4 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 streets | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 streets | det |
| 7 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 standing | obl |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 streets | acl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 marketing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | marketing | marketing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bounded | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 bounded | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gazelle | det |
| 14 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bounded | nsubj |
| 15 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 standing | conj |
| 16 | past | past | ADV | _ | 15 bounded | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 diamond | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 diamond | det |
| 19 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bounded | obl |
| 20 | flashing | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 diamond | acl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 ran | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ran | nsubj |
| 23 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 flashing | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past · progressive | the people | about the streets | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about street=Location | ||||
| 2 | do | gerund | the streets not said here | people's marketing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marketing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | bound | past | the gazelle | the diamond | past property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | flash | gerund | the diamond not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | past | grass | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | market | people | nom marketing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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