The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 50
He has heard you have a daughter, and sends you this small token, and begs you will give her to him to wife.’
Who acts: sultan, you · What happens: hear, have, send, beg, give · To what, where: daughter, small token, you, town · 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | aux |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 daughter | det |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sends | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sends | cc |
| 10 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sends | obj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 token | det |
| 13 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 token | amod |
| 14 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sends | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 begs | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 begs | cc |
| 17 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sends | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 give | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 give | aux |
| 20 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begs | ccomp |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 give | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 wife | mark |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 give | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present · perfect | sultan | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | present | you | a daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | present | sultan not said here | this small token | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination token=Theme | |||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | sultan not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give | future | you | town | to sultan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Recipient |
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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