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title: And the gazelle ran off, and about ten o’clock it came near the sult… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the gazelle ran off, and about ten o’clock it came near the sultan’s palace, where the road was all lined with soldiers who were there to do honour to Sultan Darai. Who acts: gazelle, ten o’clock. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency t
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 60

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And the gazelle ran off, and about ten o’clock it came near the sultan’s palace, where the road was all lined with soldiers who were there to do honour to Sultan Darai.

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**Who acts:** gazelle, ten o’clock · **What happens:** run off, come, line, be, do, honour · **To what, where:** palace, road, Sultan

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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 (gazelle, ten o’clock), 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:pg641:15:60
# text = And the gazelle ran off, and about ten o’clock it came near the sultan’s palace, where the road was all lined with soldiers who were there to do honour to Sultan Darai.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	lined	line	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
32	honour	honour	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	Darai	Darai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run off** | past | the gazelle |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | ten o’clock |  |  | the sultan's palace |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near palace=Location |
| 3 | **line** | past · passive |  | the road |  |  |  | all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with soldiers; there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **honour** | infinitive |  |  | Sultan |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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