The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 58

‘Be still, master, and don’t cry,’ said the gazelle at last; ‘let us sleep now, and in the morning, when I go, follow me.’

Who acts: master, us, I · What happens: be, not cry, say, let, sleep, go · To what, where: master, gazelle, last, us, 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 (master, us, I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 master	cop
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 master	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cry	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cry	cc
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 cry	aux
9	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cry	advmod
10	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 master	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cry	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 cry	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gazelle	det
15	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
21	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sleep	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 follow	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 follow	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 morning	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 morning	det
28	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 follow	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 morning	punct
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 go	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 follow	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
34	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 said	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 follow	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 follow	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		master		still	tree rules
2	not cry speech: express	infinitive · do-support					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	master	the gazelle	last		tree rules
4	let	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	sleep	infinitive	us not said here			now	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	present	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	follow	infinitive		me		morning	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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