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title: The old woman stayed no longer, and went back to the gazelle, follow… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old woman stayed no longer, and went back to the gazelle, followed secretly by the mistress, who called a maidservant and bade her take some milk and rice and cook it for the gazelle. Who acts: old woman, mistress. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, wit
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 258

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The old woman stayed no longer, and went back to the gazelle, followed secretly by the mistress, who called a maidservant and bade her take some milk and rice and cook it for the gazelle.

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**Who acts:** old woman, mistress · **What happens:** stay, go back, follow, call, take, cook · **To what, where:** maidservant, milk · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old woman, mistress), 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:pg641:15:258
# text = The old woman stayed no longer, and went back to the gazelle, followed secretly by the mistress, who called a maidservant and bade her take some milk and rice and cook it for the gazelle.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mistress	mistress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	maidservant	maidservant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	xcomp	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	punct	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go back** | past | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the gazelle *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to gazelle=Result |
| 3 | **follow** | participle | the old woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the mistress; secretly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mistress=Location |
| 4 | **call** | past | the mistress | a maidservant and bade |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | the mistress *not said here* | some milk and rice |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 6 | **cook** | infinitive | the mistress *not said here* | milk |  |  |  | for the gazelle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for gazelle=Beneficiary |

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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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