The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 97
‘Master,’ said the gazelle the following morning, ‘I am setting out on a journey, and I shall not be back for seven days, and perhaps not then.
Who acts: Master, I · What happens: say, follow, set out, not be · To what, where: gazelle, journey · 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 (Master, 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 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gazelle | det |
| 7 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 morning | det |
| 9 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 morning | amod |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 setting | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 setting | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 setting | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 setting | aux |
| 15 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 setting | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 journey | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 journey | det |
| 19 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 setting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 days | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 days | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 days | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 days | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 days | advmod |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 days | cop |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 days | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 28 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 setting | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 then | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 then | cc |
| 32 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 34 then | advmod |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 then | advmod |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Master | the gazelle | then; morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic | |||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | set out | present · progressive | I | a journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not is | shall | I | for seven days | tree rules |
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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