The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 46
The sultan looked first at the diamond and next at the gazelle; then he ordered his attendants to bring cushions and a carpet, that the gazelle might rest itself after its long journey.
Who acts: sultan, attendants, gazelle, diamond · What happens: look, order, bring, rest, journey · To what, where: attendants, cushions, diamond
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, attendants, gazelle, diamond), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 diamond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 diamond | det |
| 7 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gazelle | cc |
| 9 | next | next | ADV | _ | 12 gazelle | advmod |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 gazelle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 gazelle | det |
| 12 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 diamond | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 ordered | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 ordered | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ordered | nsubj |
| 16 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 18 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ordered | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ordered | xcomp |
| 21 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carpet | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 carpet | det |
| 24 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cushions | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rest | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 rest | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gazelle | det |
| 28 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rest | nsubj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 rest | aux |
| 30 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 bring | conj |
| 31 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 rest | obj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 journey | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 journey | nmod:poss |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 journey | amod |
| 35 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rest | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the sultan | at the diamond and the gazelle; first property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at diamond=Theme | ||||
| 2 | order | past | sultan | sultan's attendants | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | sultan's attendants not said here | cushions and a carpet | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cushion=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rest | might | the gazelle | diamond | after diamond's long journey | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme | |||
| 5 | journey | diamond | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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