The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 174
And at the end of four days a great company of ladies and slaves and horses went forth to escort the wife of Sultan Darai to her new home.
What happens: go, escort · To what, where: end, wife, new home
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 days | nummod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 company | amod |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ladies | case |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 company | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 slaves | cc |
| 14 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 horses | cc |
| 16 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | conj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 escort | mark |
| 20 | escort | escort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 wife | det |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escort | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Sultan | case |
| 24 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wife | nmod |
| 25 | Darai | Darai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sultan | flat |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 home | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 home | nmod:poss |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 home | amod |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 escort | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | at the end of four days | forth property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | escort | to-infinitive | the wife of Sultan | wife's new home | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wife=Theme to home=Destination |
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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