The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 74
‘Farewell, gazelle,’ answered the sultan; ‘when shall we see you again?’
Who acts: gazelle, we · What happens: answer, see · To what, where: sultan, you · 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, we), 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 | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
| 2 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 4 gazelle | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
| 4 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 gazelle | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 see | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 see | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | gazelle | the sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | shall | we | you | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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