The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 277

When the mistress heard of it, she sent three slaves, mounted on donkeys, with a letter to her father the sultan, and when the sultan had read the letter he bowed his head and wept, like a man who had lost his mother.

Who acts: mistress, treatment, sultan, man · What happens: hear, send, mount, read, bow, weep · To what, where: three slaves, sultan, head, mother

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 (mistress, treatment, sultan, man), 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 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mistress	det
3	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	advcl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 slaves	nummod
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sent	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mounted	punct
13	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 slaves	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 donkeys	case
15	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mounted	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 letter	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 letter	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 letter	det
19	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mounted	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 father	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 father	nmod:poss
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 letter	nmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sultan	det
24	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 father	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 read	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 read	cc
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 read	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sultan	det
29	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	nsubj:pass
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 read	aux
31	read	read	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 sent	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 letter	det
33	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 read	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 bowed	nsubj
35	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 letter	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bowed	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wept	cc
39	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bowed	conj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 man	punct
41	like	like	ADP	_	43 man	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 man	det
43	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wept	obl
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 lost	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 lost	aux
46	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 man	acl:relcl
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 mother	nmod:poss
48	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 lost	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the mistress		of well	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus
2	send	past	treatment	three slaves		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
3	mount	participle		three slaves not said here	on donkeys; with a letter to treatment's father	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with letter=Instrument
4	read	past · perfect · passive		the sultan		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient letter=Topic
5	bow	past	sultan	sultan's head		vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic
6	weep	past	sultan not said here		like a man	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	lose	past · perfect	a man	sultan's mother		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Eventuality

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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