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The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 64

‘Alas!’ replied the gazelle, ‘he is lying in the forest, for on our way here we were met by robbers, who, after beating and robbing him, took away all his clothes.

Who acts: sultan, robbers · What happens: reply, lie, meet, beat, rob, take away · To what, where: gazelle, forest, we, sultan, clothes

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, robbers), 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

punctdiscoursepunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxadvclcasedetoblpunctcasecasenmod:possobl:unmarkedadvmodnsubjaux:passacl:relclcaseoblpunctnsubjpunctmarkconjccconjobjpunctconjadvmoddet:predetnmod:possobjpunctroot‘PUNCTAlasINTJ!PUNCT’PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETgazelleNOUN,PUNCT‘PUNCThePRONisAUXlyingVERBinADPtheDETforestNOUN,PUNCTforADPonADPourPRONwayNOUNhereADVwePRONwereAUXmetVERBbyADProbbersNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRON,PUNCTafterSCONJbeatingVERBandCCONJrobbingVERBhimPRON,PUNCTtookVERBawayADVallDEThisPRONclothesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
2AlasalasINTJ_5 replieddiscourse
3!!PUNCT_2 Alaspunct
4’'PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 gazelledet
7gazellegazelleNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 lyingpunct
9‘'PUNCT_12 lyingpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 lyingnsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 lyingaux
12lyinglieVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 repliedadvcl
13ininADP_15 forestcase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 forestdet
15forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing12 lyingobl
16,,PUNCT_20 waypunct
17forforADP_20 waycase
18ononADP_20 waycase
19ourourPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 waynmod:poss
20waywayNOUNNumber=Sing12 lyingobl:unmarked
21herehereADVPronType=Dem20 wayadvmod
22wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs24 metnsubj
23werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin24 metaux:pass
24metmeetVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 wayacl:relcl
25bybyADP_26 robberscase
26robbersrobberNOUNNumber=Plur24 metobl
27,,PUNCT_31 beatingpunct
28whowhoPRONPronType=Rel31 beatingnsubj
29,,PUNCT_31 beatingpunct
30afterafterSCONJ_31 beatingmark
31beatingbeatVERBVerbForm=Ger26 robbersconj
32andandCCONJ_33 robbingcc
33robbingrobVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part31 beatingconj
34himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 robbingobj
35,,PUNCT_36 tookpunct
36tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 repliedconj
37awayawayADV_36 tookadvmod
38allallDETPronType=Tot40 clothesdet:predet
39hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs40 clothesnmod:poss
40clothesclothesNOUNNumber=Ptan36 tookobj
41..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe gazellevn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic
2liepresent · progressivesultanthe forestfor our wayvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
3meetpast · passiverobberswevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent
4beatgerundrobbersvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5robgerundrobbers not said heresultanvn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source
6take awaypastsultan's clothesaway propertyvn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=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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