The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 173

‘Very good,’ said the sultan, and he called all the people who were in the town, and commanded that the day his daughter left the palace ladies and guards were to attend her on her way.

Who acts: sultan, day, palace ladies · What happens: say, call, command, leave, be, attend · To what, where: sultan, people, palace ladies, town, way · 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 (sultan, day, palace ladies), 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	_	3 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 good	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sultan	det
8	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 called	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 people	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 called	xcomp
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 were	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 people	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 town	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 town	det
20	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 were	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 commanded	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 commanded	cc
23	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 called	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 left	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 left	nsubj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 daughter	nmod:poss
28	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 day	nmod
29	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 commanded	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ladies	det
31	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ladies	compound
32	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 left	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 guards	cc
34	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ladies	conj
35	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 ladies	acl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 attend	mark
37	attend	attend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 were	xcomp
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 attend	obj
39	on	on	ADP	_	41 way	case
40	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 way	nmod:poss
41	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 attend	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the sultan			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic
2	call	past	sultan	all people			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	command	past	sultan not said here				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past	the day sultan's daughter	the palace ladies and guards			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme
5	be	past	the palace ladies and guards not said here				tree rules
6	attend	to-infinitive	the palace ladies and guards not said here		town	town's way	vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal

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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