The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 67
‘Now,’ said he to the gazelle, ‘take these things with the soldiers to the sultan, that he may be able to come.’
Who acts: sultan · What happens: say, take, be, come · To what, where: things, sultan · 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 gazelle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gazelle | det |
| 9 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 soldiers | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 soldiers | det |
| 17 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sultan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultan | det |
| 20 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 able | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 able | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 able | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 able | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | cop |
| 26 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 take | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 able | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | sultan | now | to the gazelle | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gazelle=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | this things | the sultan | with the soldiers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to sultan=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | may | sultan | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | to-infinitive | sultan not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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