The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 55

And the sultan answered: ‘So let it be.’

Who acts: sultan, master · What happens: answer, let, be · To what, where: master

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, master), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
7	So	so	ADV	_	8 let	advmod
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the sultan		tree rules
2	let	infinitive		master	tree rules
3	be	infinitive	master not said here		vn exist-47.1 «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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