The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 176
And they journeyed on for many days, and they all, nobles and slaves, loved the gazelle with a great love--more than they loved the Sultan Darai.
Who acts: Gazelles, nobles · What happens: journey, love · To what, where: gazelle, Sultan Darai
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 (Gazelles, nobles), 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 | _ | 3 journeyed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 journeyed | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 journeyed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 loved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 loved | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 all | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 nobles | det |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 13 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 slaves | cc |
| 15 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 nobles | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nobles | punct |
| 17 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 journeyed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 gazelle | det |
| 19 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loved | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 love | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 love | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 love | amod |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 loved | obl |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 more | punct |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 love | conj |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 28 loved | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 loved | nsubj |
| 28 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 more | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Darai | det |
| 30 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Darai | compound |
| 31 | Darai | Darai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 loved | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Gazelles = gazelle | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | love | past | all nobles and slaves | the gazelle | with a great love | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gazelle=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | love | past | Gazelles = gazelle | the Sultan Darai | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer darai=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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