The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 84
‘Very good, I will be silent,’ replied the man as he mounted the horse.
Who acts: I, man · What happens: be, reply, mount · To what, where: man, horse
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 good | advmod |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 silent | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 silent | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 silent | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 silent | cop |
| 8 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 good | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 mounted | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mounted | nsubj |
| 16 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horse | det |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mounted | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | man | the horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
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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