The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 92

Directly the gazelle saw them coming, it said to its master: ‘Your father-in-law is coming to meet you; that is he in the middle, wearing a mantle of sky-blue.

Who acts: gazelle, viziers, city, father, that · What happens: see, come, say, meet, be, wear · To what, where: viziers, master, you, middle, mantle · 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 (gazelle, viziers, city, father), 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	Directly	directly	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 saw	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 master	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 master	nmod:poss
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 coming	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 coming	punct
15	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coming	nsubj
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 law	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 law	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 in	punct
20	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	nmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 coming	aux
22	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 meet	mark
24	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 coming	advcl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 meet	obj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 middle	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 middle	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 middle	cop
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 middle	nsubj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 middle	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 middle	det
32	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wearing	punct
34	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 saw	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 mantle	det
36	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wearing	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 blue	case
38	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 blue	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 sky	punct
40	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 mantle	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the gazelle	viziers = vizier			directly property	tree rules
2	come	gerund	viziers = vizier not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	city		city's master			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient
4	come	present · progressive	Your father in law					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	meet	to-infinitive	Your father in law not said here	you				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent
6	is	present	that			the middle		tree rules
7	wear	gerund	the gazelle not said here	a mantle of sky blue				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source

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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