The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 95

The next morning the gazelle went to the rooms of the sultan, and said to him: ‘My lord, we want you to marry us our wife, for the soul of Sultan Darai is eager.’

Who acts: gazelle, lord, you, soul · What happens: go, say, want, marry, be · To what, where: rooms, sultan, you, us · 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 (gazelle, lord, you, soul), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 gazelle	det
5	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 rooms	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rooms	det
9	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sultan	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sultan	det
12	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rooms	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 want	punct
20	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lord	nmod:poss
21	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 want	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lord	punct
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 want	nsubj
24	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 want	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 marry	mark
27	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 want	xcomp
28	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 marry	obj
29	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wife	nmod:poss
30	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 marry	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 soul	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 soul	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 soul	det
34	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eager	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Sultan	case
36	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 soul	nmod
37	Darai	Darai	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Sultan	flat
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 eager	cop
39	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 marry	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the gazelle			the rooms of the sultan	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the gazelle not said here		sultan				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	want	present	My lord	you					tree rules
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	us					tree rules
5	is	present	the soul of Sultan					eager property	tree rules

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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