The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 73
Everything was carried out as the gazelle had ordered, and when all was ready it said to the sultan: ‘Farewell, my lord, I am going.’
Who acts: all, back, I · What happens: carry out, order, be, say, go · To what, where: Everything, gazelle, 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 (all, back, 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | aux:pass |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 carried | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 ordered | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gazelle | det |
| 7 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ordered | aux |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ready | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ready | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ready | advmod |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | cop |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 carried | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ready | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 sultan | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sultan | det |
| 20 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 lord | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 lord | punct |
| 23 | Farewell | farewell | INTJ | _ | 26 lord | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lord | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lord | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 going | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 going | aux |
| 30 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 lord | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 going | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry out | past · passive | Everything | my lord obl | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | order | past · perfect · passive | the gazelle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | back | the sultan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go | present · progressive | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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