The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 283

When the three slaves went and told their mistress what the sultan had done, and how all the people were weeping, she answered:

Who acts: three slaves, sultan, people, news · What happens: go, tell, do, weep, answer · To what, where: mistress · 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 (three slaves, sultan, people, news), 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	SCONJ	_	5 went	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 slaves	det
3	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 slaves	nummod
4	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 answered	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mistress	nmod:poss
9	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	iobj
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 done	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sultan	det
12	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 weeping	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 weeping	cc
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 all	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 people	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 weeping	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 weeping	aux
22	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 answered	nsubj
25	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	go	past	the three slaves		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the three slaves not said here	Gazelles's mistress	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient clause=Topic
3	do	past · perfect	the sultan		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	weep	past · progressive	all people		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	answer speech: assert	past	news		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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