The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 75
‘To-morrow about five,’ replied the gazelle, and, giving a tug to the horse’s rein, they set off at a gallop.
Who acts: Gazelles · What happens: reply, give, set off · To what, where: gazelle, morrow, tug, rein, gallop
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), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morrow | case |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 To | punct |
| 4 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obl |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 five | case |
| 6 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 morrow | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morrow | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gazelle | det |
| 11 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 set | ccomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tug | det |
| 17 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 rein | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rein | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 22 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 giving | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 set | nsubj |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 set | compound:prt |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 gallop | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 gallop | det |
| 29 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the gazelle | morrow about five | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic to morrow=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | Gazelles = gazelle not said here | a tug | the horse's rein | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tug=Theme to rein=Recipient | |||
| 3 | set off | past | Gazelles = gazelle | a gallop | tree rules |
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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