The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 85
‘You have given all this; it is you who are the master, and I who am the slave, and I will obey you in all things.’
Who acts: You, turban, I · What happens: give, be, obey · To what, where: this, you, master, slave, things
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 (You, turban, I), 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 | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 given | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 given | aux |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 this | det:predet |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 given | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 you | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 you | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 you | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 given | obl |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 master | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 master | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 master | det |
| 14 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 you | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 slave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 slave | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 slave | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 slave | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 slave | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 slave | det |
| 21 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 given | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 obey | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 obey | cc |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 obey | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 obey | aux |
| 26 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 given | conj |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 obey | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 things | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 things | det |
| 30 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 obey | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | You | this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | turban | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the master | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | I | the slave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | obey | future | I | you | all things | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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