The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 45
And the gazelle galloped up to him, and laid the diamond at his feet.
Who acts: gazelle · What happens: gallop up, lay · To what, where: sultan, diamond, feet
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 galloped | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 galloped | nsubj |
| 4 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 galloped | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 galloped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 laid | cc |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 galloped | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 diamond | det |
| 12 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 laid | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop up | past | the gazelle | sultan | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to he=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | the gazelle not said here | the diamond | sultan's feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent diamond=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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