The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 52
The wife is his wife, the family is his family, the slave is his slave.
Who acts: wife, family, slave · What happens: be · To what, where: wife, family, slave
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 (wife, family, slave), 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 wife | det |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 family | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 family | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 family | cop |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 family | nmod:poss |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 slave | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 slave | det |
| 14 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slave | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 slave | cop |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 slave | nmod:poss |
| 17 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the wife | sultan's wife and sultan's family and sultan's slave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the family | sultan's family | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the slave | sultan's slave | tree rules |
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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