The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 44
They called after it, but it took no notice till it reached the palace, where the sultan was sitting, enjoying the cool air.
Who acts: Gazelles, it, grass, sultan · What happens: call, take, reach, sit, enjoy · To what, where: notice, palace, cool air · 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 (Gazelles, it, grass, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 notice | det |
| 10 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 sitting | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sultan | det |
| 19 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sitting | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sitting | aux |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 palace | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 enjoying | punct |
| 23 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sitting | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 25 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 air | amod |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 enjoying | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Gazelles = gazelle | after grass | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | take | past | it | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | grass | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit | past · progressive | the sultan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | enjoy | gerund | the sultan not said here | the cool air | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer air=Stimulus |
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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