The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 91
And the sultan set off at once, and the viziers and the emirs, and the judges, and the rich men of the city, all followed him.
Who acts: sultan, viziers · What happens: set off, follow · To what, where: sultan
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, viziers), 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 | _ | 4 set | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sultan | det |
| 3 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 followed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 followed | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 viziers | det |
| 11 | viziers | vizier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 followed | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 emirs | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 emirs | det |
| 14 | emirs | emir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 viziers | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 judges | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 judges | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 judges | det |
| 18 | judges | judge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 viziers | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 followed | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 men | det |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 men | amod |
| 23 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 followed | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 city | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 city | det |
| 26 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 men | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 followed | punct |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 followed | advmod |
| 29 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 followed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the sultan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | the viziers and the emirs and the judges | sultan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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