The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 48
And when the gazelle was rested, the sultan said to it: ‘Give me the news you have come with.’
Who acts: sultan, you · What happens: rest, say, give, come · To what, where: gazelle, milk, news, me · 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 (sultan, you), 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 | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 rested | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gazelle | det |
| 4 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rested | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | aux:pass |
| 6 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rested | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 15 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 Give | iobj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 news | det |
| 18 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Give | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 come | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 come | aux |
| 21 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 news | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · passive | the gazelle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the sultan | milk | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to it=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the news | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient news=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | present · perfect | you | the news not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=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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