The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 76

The sultan watched them till they were out of sight: then he said to his attendants, ‘That gazelle comes from gentle hands, from the house of a sultan, and that is what makes it so different from other gazelles.’

Who acts: sultan, Gazelles, gazelle, that · What happens: watch, be, say, come, make · To what, where: Gazelles, sight, attendants, gentle hands, house · 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, Gazelles, gazelle, that), 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 watched	nsubj
3	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 watched	obj
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 sight	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sight	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sight	cop
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 sight	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 sight	case
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watched	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 said	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watched	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 attendants	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 attendants	nmod:poss
17	attendants	attendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 said	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
19	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	22 comes	mark
20	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 gazelle	det
21	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 hands	case
24	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hands	amod
25	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 comes	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 house	punct
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 house	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 house	det
29	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 sultan	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sultan	det
32	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 house	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 makes	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 makes	cc
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 what	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 what	cop
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 makes	nsubj
38	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 comes	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 makes	obj
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 different	advmod
41	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 makes	xcomp
42	from	from	ADP	_	44 gazelles	case
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 gazelles	amod
44	gazelles	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 different	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	the sultan	Gazelles = gazelle					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	Gazelles = gazelle			sight			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	sultan		sultan's attendants		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient
4	come	present	that gazelle			gentle hands		from the house of a sultan	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location from house=Destination
5	is a	present	that						tree rules
6	make	present		house				different property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

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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