The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 94
And Sultan Darai leapt from his horse, and so did the other sultan, and they gave their hands to one another and kissed each other, and went together into the palace.
Who acts: Sultan, horse · What happens: leapt, do, give, kiss, go together · To what, where: other sultan, hands, one, each, palace
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, horse), 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 leapt | cc |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 leapt | nsubj |
| 3 | Darai | Darai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sultan | flat |
| 4 | leapt | leapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leapt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 did | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leapt | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sultan | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sultan | amod |
| 14 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leapt | parataxis |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 gave | obl |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 one | fixed |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 kissed | cc |
| 25 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | conj |
| 26 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 25 kissed | obj |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 each | fixed |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 leapt | conj |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leapt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leapt | past | Sultan | from sultan's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Sultan not said here | the other sultan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | past | horse | horse's hands | one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hand=Theme to one=Recipient | |||
| 4 | kiss | past | horse not said here | each | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | go together | past | Sultan not said here | the palace | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into palace=Initial_Location |
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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