The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 280
Night and day they travelled, till the sultan came to the well where the gazelle had been thrown.
Who acts: mistress, sultan · What happens: travel, come, throw · To what, where: well, gazelle
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, 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 | Night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 day | cc |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Night | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 came | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sultan | det |
| 9 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 travelled | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 well | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 13 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gazelle | det |
| 16 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 thrown | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 thrown | aux:pass |
| 19 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 well | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | mistress | night | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the sultan | the well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect · passive | the gazelle | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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