The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 263

When the news spread abroad, there was much weeping among the people, and Sultan Darai arose in wrath, and cried, ‘You weep for that gazelle as if you wept for me!

Who acts: news, Sultan, You · What happens: spread, be, cry, weep · To what, where: wrath · 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 (news, Sultan, You), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 spread	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 news	det
3	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 was	advcl
5	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	4 spread	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 arose	cop
9	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weeping	amod
10	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
11	among	among	ADP	_	13 people	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 weeping	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 arose	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arose	cc
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 arose	nsubj
17	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Sultan	flat
18	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 wrath	case
20	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arose	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cried	cc
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 arose	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weep	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 weep	punct
26	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 weep	nsubj
27	weep	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 cried	ccomp
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 gazelle	case
29	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 gazelle	det
30	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 weep	obl
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 wept	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 wept	mark
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 wept	nsubj
34	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 weep	advcl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 me	case
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 wept	obl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	spread	past	the news		abroad property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	Sultan	wrath	arise property	tree rules
3	cry speech: express	past	Sultan not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	weep	present	You		for that gazelle	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	past	you		for me	vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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