--- title: And when the sultana and her ladies and her slaves entered the house… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when the sultana and her ladies and her slaves entered the house, and saw the rich stuffs it was hung with, and the beautiful rice that was prepared for them to eat, they cried: ‘Ah, you gazelle, we have seen great houses, we have seen people, we have heard of things. Who acts: sultana, rich, yo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/188/) [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/) / 188 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 188 And when the sultana and her ladies and her slaves entered the house, and saw the rich stuffs it was hung with, and the beautiful rice that was prepared for them to eat, they cried: ‘Ah, you gazelle, we have seen great houses, we have seen people, we have heard of things. **Who acts:** sultana, rich, you, we · **What happens:** enter, see, stuff, hang, prepare, eat · **To what, where:** house, slave, beautiful rice, great houses, people · **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 (sultana, rich, you, we), 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:pg641:15:188 # text = And when the sultana and her ladies and her slaves entered the house, and saw the rich stuffs it was hung with, and the beautiful rice that was prepared for them to eat, they cried: ‘Ah, you gazelle, we have seen great houses, we have seen people, we have heard of things. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sultana sultana NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 ladies lady NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 slaves slave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 11 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stuffs stuff VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 ccomp _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 29 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 32 for for SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 48 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 46 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 47 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 48 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 ccomp _ _ 49 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 houses house NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 conj _ _ 55 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 59 nsubj _ _ 58 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 59 aux _ _ 59 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 54 conj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 59 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | the sultana and woman's ladies and woman's slaves | the house | | | | the beautiful rice *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | | 2 | **see** | past | the sultana and woman's ladies and woman's slaves *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **stuff** | present | the rich | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **hang** | past · passive | | slave | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **prepare** | past · passive | | the beautiful rice | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sultana | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sultana | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **gazelle** | | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **see** | present · perfect | we | great houses | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | | 10 | **see** | present · perfect | we | people | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | | 11 | **hear** | present · perfect | we | | | | | of things | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of thing=Stimulus | 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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/189/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)