The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 81

‘Master!’ said the gazelle when the man was ready, ‘be sure that where we are going you keep silence, except for giving greetings and asking for news.

Who acts: Master, man, we, you · What happens: say, be, go, keep, give, ask · To what, where: gazelle, silence, greetings · 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 (Master, man, we, you), 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	_	2 Master	punct
2	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Master	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gazelle	det
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 ready	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ready	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ready	cop
12	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 sure	punct
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 sure	cop
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 going	mark
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 going	advmod
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 going	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 going	aux
21	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sure	ccomp
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 keep	nsubj
23	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sure	ccomp
24	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 keep	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 giving	punct
26	except	except	ADP	_	28 giving	mark
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 giving	mark
28	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 keep	advcl
29	greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 giving	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asking	cc
31	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 giving	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 news	case
33	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Master	the gazelle		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic
2	is	past	the man		ready property	tree rules
3	is	infinitive			sure property	tree rules
4	go	present · progressive	we			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	keep	present	you	silence		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme
6	give	gerund	you not said here	greetings		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	gerund	you not said here		for news	vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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