The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 54
When the sultan had ended, the gazelle rose, and said: ‘Master, farewell; I go back to our town, and in eight days, or it may be in eleven days, we shall arrive as your guests.’
Who acts: gazelle, I, master, we · What happens: end, rise, say, go back, be, arrive · To what, where: sultan, Master · 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 (gazelle, I, master, we), 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 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | aux |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rose | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gazelle | det |
| 8 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Master | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Master | punct |
| 15 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 farewell | punct |
| 17 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Master | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 go | nsubj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 town | nmod:poss |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 back | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 days | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 days | cc |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 days | case |
| 28 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 days | nummod |
| 29 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 days | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 days | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 days | nsubj |
| 33 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 days | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 days | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 days | case |
| 36 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 days | nummod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 arrive | punct |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 arrive | nsubj |
| 40 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 arrive | aux |
| 41 | arrive | arrive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 44 guests | case |
| 43 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 guests | nmod:poss |
| 44 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 arrive | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect · passive | the sultan | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | the gazelle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the gazelle not said here | Master and farewell | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go back | present | I | day | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | may | master | in eleven days | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | arrive | shall | we | as your guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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