--- title: So for five days the gazelle set off at daybreak for this cool spot,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So for five days the gazelle set off at daybreak for this cool spot, but on the fifth day it came to a place where the grass was bitter, and it did not like it, and scratched, hoping to tear away the bad blades. Who acts: gazelle, grass. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Stor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/37/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/) / 37 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 37 So for five days the gazelle set off at daybreak for this cool spot, but on the fifth day it came to a place where the grass was bitter, and it did not like it, and scratched, hoping to tear away the bad blades. **Who acts:** gazelle, grass · **What happens:** set off, come, be, not like, scratch, hope · **To what, where:** daybreak, place, bad blades 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, grass), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:15:37 # text = So for five days the gazelle set off at daybreak for this cool spot, but on the fifth day it came to a place where the grass was bitter, and it did not like it, and scratched, hoping to tear away the bad blades. 1 So so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 2 for for ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 off off ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 daybreak daybreak NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 13 cool cool ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 fifth fifth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 bitter bitter ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 scratched scratch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 tear tear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 away away ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 blades blade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set off** | past | the gazelle | | | daybreak | day | for this cool spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | grass | | | a place | day | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **is** | past | the grass | | | | | bitter *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | grass | place | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 5 | **scratch** | past | the gazelle *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hope** | gerund | the gazelle *not said here* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **tear away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the gazelle *not said here* | the bad blades | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location blade=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. - ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/38/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)