The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 63
The sultan answered politely, and inquired where it had left its master, whom it had promised to bring back.
Who acts: sultan · What happens: answer, inquire, leave, promise, bring back · To what, where: court · 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sultan | det |
| 2 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 3 answered | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 inquired | cc |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 left | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 left | aux |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 inquired | ccomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 left | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promised | punct |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 promised | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 promised | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 promised | aux |
| 18 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 master | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promised | xcomp |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 bring | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the sultan | politely property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the sultan not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · perfect · passive | court | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme master=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect · passive | court | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: 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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