The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 192
And they all thought the gazelle greater a thousand times than its master, Sultan Darai.
Who acts: people · What happens: think
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 (people), 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 | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 thought | advmod |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gazelle | det |
| 6 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 greater | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 thousand | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 thousand | det |
| 9 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 times | nummod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 master | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Sultan | punct |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 master | appos |
| 16 | Darai | Darai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Sultan | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | people | time | than rich's master | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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