The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 180
At this news the women rejoiced much, and the slaves rejoiced much, and in the space of two hours they came to the gates, and the gazelle bade them all stay behind, and it went on to the house with Sultan Darai.
Who acts: women, slaves, mistress, slave · What happens: rejoice, come, stay, go on · To what, where: news, space, gazelle bade
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 (women, slaves, mistress, slave), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 news | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 news | det |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 women | det |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rejoiced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rejoiced | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 slaves | det |
| 11 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 12 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 rejoiced | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 space | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 space | det |
| 18 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hours | case |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hours | nummod |
| 21 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 space | nmod |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gates | det |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stay | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stay | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bade | det |
| 30 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bade | compound |
| 31 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stay | obl |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stay | nsubj |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 stay | advmod |
| 34 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 34 stay | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 went | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 went | cc |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 went | nsubj |
| 39 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADV | _ | 39 went | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 house | det |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 went | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 Sultan | case |
| 45 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 house | nmod |
| 46 | Darai | Darai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Sultan | flat |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past | the women | this news | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rejoice | participle | the slaves | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | come | past | mistress | the space of two hours | to the gates | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | stay | present | mistress | the gazelle bade | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | go on | past | slave | to the house with Sultan | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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