The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 80
And when this was done it said, ‘The sun has gone down behind the hills; it is time for us to go’: so it went and brought the clothes from the back of the horse, and the man put them on and was well pleased.
Who acts: sand, sun, us, man · What happens: do, say, go down, be, go, bring · To what, where: this, hills, time, clothes, back · 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 (sand, sun, us, man), 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 | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 done | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux:pass |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 gone | compound:prt |
| 15 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 hills | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hills | det |
| 17 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gone | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 time | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 time | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 time | cop |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 23 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 go | nsubj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 go | mark |
| 25 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 time | acl |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 go | punct |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | nsubj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brought | cc |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 went | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 clothes | det |
| 34 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 32 brought | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 back | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 back | det |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 horse | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 horse | det |
| 40 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 back | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 put | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 put | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 man | det |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 put | nsubj |
| 45 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 went | advcl |
| 46 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 put | obj |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 put | compound:prt |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 pleased | cc |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 pleased | cop |
| 50 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 51 pleased | advmod |
| 51 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 went | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | sand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go down | present · perfect | the sun | the hills | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind hill=Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | sand | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | us | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past | sand | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | bring | past | sand not said here | the clothes | the back of the horse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme from back=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | put on | infinitive | the man | clothes | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | ||||
| 9 | is | past | sand not said here | pleased, well property | 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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