The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 281
And it was a large well, built round a rock, with room for many people; and the sultan entered, and the judges and the rich men followed him.
Who acts: well, sultan, judges · What happens: be, build, enter, follow · To what, where: large well, sultan
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 (well, sultan, judges), 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 | _ | 6 well | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 well | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 5 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 well | amod |
| 6 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 built | punct |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 well | acl |
| 9 | round | round | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 built | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 room | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 room | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 entered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 entered | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sultan | det |
| 21 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entered | nsubj |
| 22 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 well | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 followed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 followed | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 judges | det |
| 26 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 followed | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 men | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 men | det |
| 29 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 men | amod |
| 30 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 judges | conj |
| 31 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entered | advcl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 followed | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 well | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | well | a large well | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | a large well not said here | round a rock and room for many people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the sultan | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | follow | past | the judges and the rich men | sultan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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