The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 68
And the gazelle answered: ‘Can I take those soldiers to go and put my master to shame as he lies there naked?
Who acts: gazelle, I, sultan · What happens: answer, take, go, put, shame, lie · To what, where: soldiers, 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 (gazelle, I, 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 take | punct |
| 7 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 take | aux |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 take | nsubj |
| 9 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 soldiers | det |
| 11 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 take | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 take | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 master | nmod:poss |
| 17 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 shame | mark |
| 19 | shame | shame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 put | advcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 lies | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lies | nsubj |
| 22 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 shame | advcl |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 lies | advmod |
| 24 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lies | xcomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the gazelle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | can | I | that soldiers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | I not said here | my master | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent master=Goal | ||||
| 5 | shame | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | lie | present | sultan | there | naked property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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