The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 86
‘So they went their way, and they went and went till the gazelle saw in the distance the palace of the sultan.
Who acts: things, gazelle · What happens: go, see · To what, where: way
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 (things, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 saw | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gazelle | det |
| 15 | gazelle | gazelle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 palace | det |
| 21 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 distance | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 sultan | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sultan | det |
| 24 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 palace | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | things = thing | things's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | things = thing | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | things = thing not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | past | the gazelle | in the distance the palace of the sultan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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