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The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 100

And it went to the sultan of the country and said to him: ‘My lord, Sultan Darai has sent me to his town to get the house in order.

Who acts: house, lord · What happens: go, say, send, get · To what, where: sultan, me, town, house, order · 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 (house, lord), 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

ccnsubjcasedetoblcasedetnmodccconjcaseoblpunctpunctnmod:possnsubjpunctapposflatauxccompobjcasenmod:possoblmarkadvcldetobjcaseoblpunctrootAndCCONJitPRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETsultanNOUNofADPtheDETcountryNOUNandCCONJsaidVERBtoADPhimPRON:PUNCT‘PUNCTMyPRONlordNOUN,PUNCTSultanPROPNDaraiPROPNhasAUXsentVERBmePRONtoADPhisPRONtownNOUNtoPARTgetVERBtheDEThouseNOUNinADPorderNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_3 wentcc
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 wentnsubj
3wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoADP_6 sultancase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 sultandet
6sultansultanNOUNNumber=Sing3 wentobl
7ofofADP_9 countrycase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 countrydet
9countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing6 sultannmod
10andandCCONJ_11 saidcc
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 wentconj
12totoADP_13 himcase
13himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 saidobl
14::PUNCT_17 lordpunct
15‘'PUNCT_17 lordpunct
16MymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 lordnmod:poss
17lordlordNOUNNumber=Sing22 sentnsubj
18,,PUNCT_19 Sultanpunct
19SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing17 lordappos
20DaraiDaraiPROPNNumber=Sing19 Sultanflat
21hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 sentaux
22sentsendVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 saidccomp
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 sentobj
24totoADP_26 towncase
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 townnmod:poss
26towntownNOUNNumber=Sing22 sentobl
27totoPART_28 getmark
28getgetVERBVerbForm=Inf22 sentadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 housedet
30househouseNOUNNumber=Sing28 getobj
31ininADP_32 ordercase
32orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing28 getobl
33..PUNCT_3 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopasthousethe sultan of the countryvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sultan=Initial_Location
2say speech: assertpasthouse not said heresultanvn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3sendpresent · perfectMy lordmelord's townvn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to town=Destination
4getto-infinitiveMy lord not said herethe houseordervn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=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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