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title: The sultan looked first at the diamond and next at the gazelle; then… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sultan looked first at the diamond and next at the gazelle; then he ordered his attendants to bring cushions and a carpet, that the gazelle might rest itself after its long journey. Who acts: sultan, attendants, gazelle, diamond. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 46

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The sultan looked first at the diamond and next at the gazelle; then he ordered his attendants to bring cushions and a carpet, that the gazelle might rest itself after its long journey.

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**Who acts:** sultan, attendants, gazelle, diamond · **What happens:** look, order, bring, rest, journey · **To what, where:** attendants, cushions, diamond

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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 (sultan, attendants, gazelle, diamond), 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:pg641:15:46
# text = The sultan looked first at the diamond and next at the gazelle; then he ordered his attendants to bring cushions and a carpet, that the gazelle might rest itself after its long journey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	next	next	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
21	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	carpet	carpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	after	after	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the sultan |  |  |  |  | at the diamond and the gazelle; first *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at diamond=Theme |
| 2 | **order** | past | sultan | sultan's attendants |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sultan's attendants *not said here* | cushions and a carpet |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cushion=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** | might | the gazelle | diamond |  |  | after diamond's long journey |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location itself=Theme |
| 5 | **journey** |  | diamond |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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