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title: And directly they caught sight of the gazelle in the distance one of… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And directly they caught sight of the gazelle in the distance one of the soldiers ran on and said, ‘Sultan Darai is coming: I have seen the gazelle.’ Who acts: Gazelles, Sultan Darai, I. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 61

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And directly they caught sight of the gazelle in the distance one of the soldiers ran on and said, ‘Sultan Darai is coming: I have seen the gazelle.’

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**Who acts:** Gazelles, Sultan Darai, I · **What happens:** catch, run on, say, come, see, sight · **To what, where:** sight, gazelle · **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 (Gazelles, Sultan Darai, I), 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:pg641:15:61
# text = And directly they caught sight of the gazelle in the distance one of the soldiers ran on and said, ‘Sultan Darai is coming: I have seen the gazelle.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	flat	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Darai	Darai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Gazelles *= gazelle* | sight of the gazelle |  |  |  | directly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **run on** | past | Gazelles *= gazelle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Trajectory |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Gazelles *= gazelle* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | present · progressive | Sultan Darai |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | present · perfect | I | the gazelle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gazelle=Stimulus |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the gazelle |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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