The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 60

And the gazelle ran off, and about ten o’clock it came near the sultan’s palace, where the road was all lined with soldiers who were there to do honour to Sultan Darai.

Who acts: gazelle, ten o’clock · What happens: run off, come, line, be, do, honour · To what, where: palace, road, Sultan

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, ten o’clock), 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 ran	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gazelle	det
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 ten	advmod
9	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 o’clock	nummod
10	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
13	near	near	ADP	_	17 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sultan	det
15	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 palace	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 sultan	case
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lined	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lined	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 road	det
21	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lined	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 lined	aux:pass
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 lined	advmod
24	lined	line	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 palace	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 soldiers	case
26	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 there	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 there	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 there	cop
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 lined	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 do	mark
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 there	advcl
32	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 do	ccomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 Sultan	case
34	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 honour	obl
35	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Sultan	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the gazelle					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	ten o’clock			the sultan's palace		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location
3	line	past · passive		the road			all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	is	past					with soldiers; there property	tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive						tree rules
6	honour	infinitive			Sultan			tree rules

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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