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title: It was the gazelle who met with trouble here, it was the gazelle who… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was the gazelle who met with trouble here, it was the gazelle who met with rest here. Who acts: soul, gazelle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 269

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It was the gazelle who met with trouble here, it was the gazelle who met with rest here.

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**Who acts:** soul, gazelle · **What happens:** be, meet · **To what, where:** gazelle

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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 (soul, gazelle), 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:pg641:15:269
# text = It was the gazelle who met with trouble here, it was the gazelle who met with rest here.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | soul | the gazelle and the gazelle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meet** | past | the gazelle and the gazelle |  |  | here |  | with trouble | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with trouble=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | soul | the gazelle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | past | the gazelle |  |  | here |  | with rest | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rest=Co-Agent |

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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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