The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 286
The sultan took the gazelle and buried it, and ordered the people to wear mourning for it, so there was great mourning throughout the city.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: take, bury, order, wear, be, mourn · To what, where: gazelle, water, people, mourning
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gazelle | det |
| 5 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 buried | cc |
| 7 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 buried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ordered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ordered | cc |
| 11 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ordered | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 wear | mark |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ordered | xcomp |
| 16 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wear | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 mourning | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 great | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 great | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 great | expl |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 great | cop |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 24 | mourning | mourn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 great | advcl |
| 25 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 mourning | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the sultan | the gazelle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument gazelle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | bury | past | the sultan not said here | water | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the people | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wear not said to happen | to-infinitive | mourning | for water | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mourning=Source | ||||
| 5 | is | past | there | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | mourn | gerund | throughout the city | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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