The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 57
And when it came in at the door he rushed to embrace it with such joy that he would not allow it a chance to speak.
Who acts: master, sultan · What happens: come in, rush, embrace, not allow, speak · To what, where: door, master · 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 (master, sultan), 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 rushed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushed | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 embrace | mark |
| 12 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 rushed | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embrace | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embrace | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 allow | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 allow | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 allow | advmod |
| 21 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 embrace | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 allow | obj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chance | det |
| 24 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 allow | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 speak | mark |
| 26 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 chance | acl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | master | the door | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at door=Location | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | sultan | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | embrace | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | master | with such joy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | not allow | would | sultan | master | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal chance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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