The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 276

But Sultan Darai would not heed their words, and the dead gazelle was thrown into the well.

Who acts: Sultan, Gazelles · What happens: not heed, throw, word · To what, where: words, dead gazelle, well

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 (Sultan, Gazelles), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 heed	cc
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heed	nsubj
3	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Sultan	flat
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 heed	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 heed	advmod
6	heed	heed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod:poss
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 thrown	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thrown	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 gazelle	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 gazelle	amod
13	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thrown	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 thrown	aux:pass
15	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heed	conj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 well	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 well	det
18	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thrown	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not heed	would	Sultan	Gazelles's words		vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
2	throw	past · passive		the dead gazelle	into the well result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into well=Result
3	word		Gazelles = gazelle			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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