--- title: When the sultan had ended, the gazelle rose, and said: ‘Master, fare… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When the sultan had ended, the gazelle rose, and said: ‘Master, farewell; I go back to our town, and in eight days, or it may be in eleven days, we shall arrive as your guests.’ Who acts: gazelle, I, master, we. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gazelle, I, master, 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:pg641:15:54 # text = When the sultan had ended, the gazelle rose, and said: ‘Master, farewell; I go back to our town, and in eight days, or it may be in eleven days, we shall arrive as your guests.’ 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 ended end VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 farewell farewell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 33 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 eleven eleven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 37 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 guests guest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **end** | past · perfect · passive | | the sultan | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 2 | **rise** | past | the gazelle | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the gazelle *not said here* | Master and farewell | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent master=Topic | | 4 | **go back** | present | I | | | | day | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **is** | may | master | | | | in eleven days | | tree rules | | 6 | **arrive** | shall | we | | | | | as your guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/55/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)