The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 87
Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new.’
Who acts: way, that, we, you, name, your · What happens: say, be, go, not be, name · To what, where: Master, house, poor man · 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 (way, that, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 said | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Master | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Master | punct |
| 6 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 house | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 house | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Master | appos |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 going | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 going | aux |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 house | acl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 going | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 man | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 man | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 man | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 man | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 man | advmod |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 man | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
| 27 | even | even | ADV | _ | 29 name | advmod |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 name | nmod:poss |
| 29 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 new | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 new | cop |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | parataxis |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | way | Master | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | that | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | present · progressive | we | the house not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | you | a poor man | long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | your name | new property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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