The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 188

And when the sultana and her ladies and her slaves entered the house, and saw the rich stuffs it was hung with, and the beautiful rice that was prepared for them to eat, they cried: ‘Ah, you gazelle, we have seen great houses, we have seen people, we have heard of things.

Who acts: sultana, rich, you, we · What happens: enter, see, stuff, hang, prepare, eat · To what, where: house, slave, beautiful rice, great houses, people · 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 (sultana, rich, you, we), 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	_	11 entered	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 entered	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sultana	det
4	sultana	sultana	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ladies	cc
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 ladies	nmod:poss
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sultana	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 slaves	cc
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 slaves	nmod:poss
10	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ladies	conj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 entered	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rich	det
18	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stuffs	nsubj
19	stuffs	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	ccomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hung	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hung	aux:pass
22	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 stuffs	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	22 hung	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rice	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 rice	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 rice	det
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rice	amod
28	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 prepared	nsubj:pass
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 prepared	aux:pass
31	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 rice	acl:relcl
32	for	for	SCONJ	_	35 eat	mark
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	nsubj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 eat	mark
35	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 prepared	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cried	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 cried	nsubj
38	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 entered	conj
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 seen	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	48 seen	punct
41	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	48 seen	discourse
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 gazelle	punct
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 gazelle	nsubj
44	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 Ah	vocative
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 Ah	punct
46	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 seen	nsubj
47	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 seen	aux
48	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	38 cried	ccomp
49	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 houses	amod
50	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 seen	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 seen	punct
52	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 seen	nsubj
53	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 seen	aux
54	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 seen	conj
55	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 seen	obj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 heard	punct
57	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 heard	nsubj
58	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 heard	aux
59	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 seen	conj
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 things	case
61	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 heard	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the sultana and woman's ladies and woman's slaves	the house	the beautiful rice obl	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	see	past	the sultana and woman's ladies and woman's slaves not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	stuff	present	the rich			tree rules
4	hang	past · passive		slave		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	prepare	past · passive		the beautiful rice		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
6	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	sultana			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cry speech: express	past	sultana			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	gazelle		you			tree rules
9	see	present · perfect	we	great houses		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
10	see	present · perfect	we	people		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus
11	hear	present · perfect	we		of things	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=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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