The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 59
With the first ray of dawn they got up and went into the forest, and on the fifth day, as they were resting near a stream, the gazelle gave its master a sound beating, and then bade him stay where he was till it returned.
Who acts: Gazelles, gazelle, sultan · What happens: get up, go, rest, give, bade, stay · To what, where: forest, fifth day, stream, master, sultan, dawn
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 (Gazelles, gazelle, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 ray | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ray | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 ray | amod |
| 4 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ray | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 gave | cc |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 resting | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 resting | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 resting | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 resting | aux |
| 25 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 day | acl |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 stream | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stream | det |
| 28 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 resting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 day | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 gazelle | det |
| 31 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | nsubj |
| 32 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | parataxis |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 master | nmod:poss |
| 34 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 beating | det |
| 36 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 beating | compound |
| 37 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 gave | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bade | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bade | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 41 bade | advmod |
| 41 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 gave | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 bade | obj |
| 43 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 bade | xcomp |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 returned | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 returned | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 returned | cop |
| 47 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 49 returned | mark |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 returned | nsubj |
| 49 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 stay | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | Gazelles = gazelle | with the first ray of dawn | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Gazelles = gazelle not said here | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | rest | past · progressive | Gazelles = gazelle | the fifth day not said here | a stream | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent day=Theme near stream=Location | |||
| 4 | give | past | the gazelle | stream's master | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent master=Recipient beating=Theme | |||
| 5 | bade | past | the gazelle not said here | sultan | then | tree rules | |||
| 6 | stay | infinitive | the gazelle not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | sultan | return property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | ray | dawn | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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