The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 278
And he commanded horses to be saddled, and called the governor and the judges and all the rich men, and said:
Who acts: sultan · What happens: command, saddle, call, say · To what, where: horses, governor · 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 (sultan), 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 | _ | 3 commanded | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | parataxis |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 commanded | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 saddled | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saddled | aux:pass |
| 7 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 commanded | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 called | cc |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 governor | det |
| 12 | governor | governor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 judges | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 judges | det |
| 15 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 men | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 men | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 men | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 men | amod |
| 20 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 judges | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | sultan | horses | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | saddle | to-infinitive · passive | sultan not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 3 | call | past | the governor | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent governor=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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