The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 90
Very soon some soldiers came to meet them, while others ran off to tell the sultan of their approach.
Who acts: soldiers, others · What happens: come, meet, run off, tell, approach · To what, where: soldiers, 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 (soldiers, others), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 soldiers | det |
| 4 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 meet | mark |
| 7 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 meet | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 ran | mark |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ran | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sultan | det |
| 17 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 approach | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 approach | nmod:poss |
| 20 | approach | approach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sultan | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some soldiers | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | some soldiers not said here | soldiers = soldier | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | others | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | others not said here | the sultan of others's approach | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | approach | others = other | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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