The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 62

Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, and went out to meet the gazelle, who, bounding up to him, gave him greeting.

Who acts: sultan, gazelle · What happens: rise up, call, follow, go out, meet, bound up · To what, where: whole court, sultan, 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 (sultan, gazelle), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sultan	det
3	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 rose	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 court	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 court	amod
11	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 follow	mark
13	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 called	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 follow	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
18	out	out	ADV	_	17 went	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 meet	mark
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 went	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gazelle	det
22	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meet	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bounding	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 bounding	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bounding	punct
26	bounding	bound	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 gazelle	acl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 bounding	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bounding	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 gave	punct
31	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 gave	iobj
33	greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 gave	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the sultan			then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	call	past	the sultan not said here	sultan's whole court				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent court=Recipient
3	follow	to-infinitive	the sultan not said here	sultan				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	go out	past	the sultan not said here				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	meet	to-infinitive	the sultan not said here	the gazelle				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Co-Agent
6	bound up	gerund	the gazelle		sultan			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination
7	give	past	the sultan not said here		sultan			tree rules
8	greet speech: greet	gerund	the sultan not said here					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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