The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 79
And the gazelle said to him, ‘Get up, my master, and bathe in the stream!’ and when the man had bathed it said again, ‘Now rub yourself well with earth, and rub your teeth well with sand to make them bright and shining.’
Who acts: gazelle, man, stream · What happens: say, get up, bathe, bath, rub, make · To what, where: sultan, yourself, teeth, Gazelles · 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, man, stream), 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 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gazelle | det |
| 3 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 9 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 Get | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 master | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Get | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bathe | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bathe | cc |
| 16 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Get | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 stream | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stream | det |
| 19 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bathe | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Get | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 23 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 bathed | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bathed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 bathed | aux |
| 27 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 said | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 rub | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 rub | punct |
| 33 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 rub | advmod |
| 34 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | conj |
| 35 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 rub | obj |
| 36 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 rub | advmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 earth | case |
| 38 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rub | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 rub | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 rub | cc |
| 41 | rub | rub | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | conj |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 43 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 rub | obj |
| 44 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 41 rub | advmod |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 sand | case |
| 46 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rub | obl |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 make | mark |
| 48 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 rub | advcl |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 make | obj |
| 50 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 make | xcomp |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 shining | cc |
| 52 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 bright | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 54 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the gazelle | sultan | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bathe | infinitive | in the stream | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bath | past · perfect | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | stream | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | rub | infinitive | stream not said here | yourself | now | with earth; well property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination with earth=Theme | ||
| 7 | rub | infinitive | the gazelle not said here | your teeth | with sand; well property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Destination with sand=Theme | |||
| 8 | make | to-infinitive | the gazelle not said here | Gazelles = gazelle | bright property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 9 | shine | gerund | the gazelle not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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