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title: At this news the women rejoiced much, and the slaves rejoiced much,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this news the women rejoiced much, and the slaves rejoiced much, and in the space of two hours they came to the gates, and the gazelle bade them all stay behind, and it went on to the house with Sultan Darai. Who acts: women, slaves, mistress, slave. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andre
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 180

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At this news the women rejoiced much, and the slaves rejoiced much, and in the space of two hours they came to the gates, and the gazelle bade them all stay behind, and it went on to the house with Sultan Darai.

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**Who acts:** women, slaves, mistress, slave · **What happens:** rejoice, come, stay, go on · **To what, where:** news, space, gazelle bade

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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 (women, slaves, mistress, slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg641:15:180
# text = At this news the women rejoiced much, and the slaves rejoiced much, and in the space of two hours they came to the gates, and the gazelle bade them all stay behind, and it went on to the house with Sultan Darai.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	advmod	_	_
34	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
40	on	on	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	Darai	Darai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rejoice** | past | the women |  |  | this news |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **rejoice** | participle | the slaves |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | past | mistress |  |  | the space of two hours |  | to the gates | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stay** | present | mistress | the gazelle bade |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **go on** | past | slave |  |  |  |  | to the house with Sultan | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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