The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 61

And directly they caught sight of the gazelle in the distance one of the soldiers ran on and said, ‘Sultan Darai is coming: I have seen the gazelle.’

Who acts: Gazelles, Sultan Darai, I · What happens: catch, run on, say, come, see, sight · To what, where: sight, gazelle · 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, Sultan Darai, I), 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 caught	cc
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	4 caught	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 gazelle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gazelle	det
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sight	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 distance	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 distance	det
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ran	obl
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 distance	flat
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 soldiers	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldiers	det
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
16	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	advcl
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 ran	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 coming	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 coming	punct
22	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Darai	compound
23	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 coming	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 coming	aux
25	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 said	ccomp
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 seen	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 coming	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 gazelle	det
31	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch	past	Gazelles = gazelle	sight of the gazelle	directly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
2	run on	past	Gazelles = gazelle not said here		in the distance	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	Gazelles = gazelle not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	present · progressive	Sultan Darai			tree rules
5	see	present · perfect	I	the gazelle		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gazelle=Stimulus
6	sight			the gazelle		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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