The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 9
‘Bring them here, for I should like to see them.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: bring, like, see · To what, where: Gazelles
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, 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Bring | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 like | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bring | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 like | xcomp |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | Gazelles = gazelle | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | Gazelles = gazelle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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