--- title: The old woman shrieked with delight when she saw her enemy was dead,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The old woman shrieked with delight when she saw her enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to the gazelle, and fanned it, and put it where the wind could blow on it, till it grew better and gave a sneeze. Who acts: old woman, enemy, wind. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The St --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/155/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/) / 155 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 155 The old woman shrieked with delight when she saw her enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to the gazelle, and fanned it, and put it where the wind could blow on it, till it grew better and gave a sneeze. **Who acts:** old woman, enemy, wind · **What happens:** shriek, see, be, run, bring, fan · **To what, where:** old woman, water, gazelle, enemy, sneeze · **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 (old woman, enemy, wind), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg641:15:155 # text = The old woman shrieked with delight when she saw her enemy was dead, and ran to bring water to the gazelle, and fanned it, and put it where the wind could blow on it, till it grew better and gave a sneeze. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 shrieked shriek VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 delight delight NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 enemy enemy NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 fanned fan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 blow blow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 parataxis _ _ 42 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 41 xcomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shriek** | participle | | the old woman *not said here* | | | | with delight | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with delight=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | the old woman | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | woman's enemy | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run** | past | the old woman *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | water | the gazelle | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme to gazelle=Destination | | 6 | **fan** | past | the old woman *not said here* | water | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **put** | infinitive | the old woman *not said here* | water | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | | 8 | **blow** | could | the wind | | | enemy | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **grow** | past | wind | | | | | good *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **give** | past | wind *not said here* | a sneeze | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sneeze=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. - ← previous: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/154/) - next →: [sentence 156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/156/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)