--- title: So the gazelle went to the father-in-law and said: ‘I am sent by my… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the gazelle went to the father-in-law and said: ‘I am sent by my master to come and tell you that after four days he will go away with his wife to his own home.’ Who acts: gazelle, master, son. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gazelle, master, son), 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:pg641:15:169 # text = So the gazelle went to the father-in-law and said: ‘I am sent by my master to come and tell you that after four days he will go away with his wife to his own home.’ 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 7 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 ccomp _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 30 nummod _ _ 30 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 ccomp _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the gazelle | | | the law | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to law=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the gazelle *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **send** | present · passive | my master | I | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | my master *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | my master *not said here* | | you | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **go away** | future | son | | | son's own home | day | with son's wife; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to home=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. - ← previous: [sentence 168](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/168/) - next →: [sentence 170](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/170/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)