The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 93
Get off your horse and go to greet him.’
Who acts: you · What happens: get off, go, greet · To what, where: horse, sultan
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), 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 | Get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Get | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Get | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Get | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 greet | mark |
| 8 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 greet | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get off | imperative | you not said here | your horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | you not said here | sultan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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