The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 77
And in the eyes of the sultan the gazelle became a person of consequence.
Who acts: gazelle · What happens: become · To what, where: person, eyes
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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 eyes | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 eyes | det |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sultan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sultan | det |
| 7 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gazelle | det |
| 9 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 person | det |
| 12 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 consequence | case |
| 14 | consequence | consequence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 person | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the gazelle | a person of consequence | in the eyes of the sultan result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in eye=Result |
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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