--- title: ‘Very good,’ said the sultan, and he called all the people who were… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Very good,’ said the sultan, and he called all the people who were in the town, and commanded that the day his daughter left the palace ladies and guards were to attend her on her way. Who acts: sultan, day, palace ladies. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/173/) [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/) / 173 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 173 ‘Very good,’ said the sultan, and he called all the people who were in the town, and commanded that the day his daughter left the palace ladies and guards were to attend her on her way. **Who acts:** sultan, day, palace ladies · **What happens:** say, call, command, leave, be, attend · **To what, where:** sultan, people, palace ladies, town, way · **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 (sultan, day, palace ladies), 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:pg641:15:173 # text = ‘Very good,’ said the sultan, and he called all the people who were in the town, and commanded that the day his daughter left the palace ladies and guards were to attend her on her way. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 xcomp _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 commanded command VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 guards guard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 35 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 attend attend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the sultan | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic | | 2 | **call** | past | sultan | all people | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **command** | past | sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **leave** | past | the day sultan's daughter | the palace ladies and guards | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | the palace ladies and guards *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **attend** | to-infinitive | the palace ladies and guards *not said here* | | town | town's way | | | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Goal | 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 172](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/172/) - next →: [sentence 174](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/174/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)