--- title: Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, and went out to meet the gazelle, who, bounding up to him, gave him greeting. Who acts: sultan, gazelle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/62/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/) / 62 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 62 Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, and went out to meet the gazelle, who, bounding up to him, gave him greeting. **Who acts:** sultan, gazelle · **What happens:** rise up, call, follow, go out, meet, bound up · **To what, where:** whole court, sultan, gazelle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, gazelle), 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:pg641:15:62 # text = Then the sultan rose up, and called his whole court to follow him, and went out to meet the gazelle, who, bounding up to him, gave him greeting. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 10 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 court court NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 out out ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 bounding bound VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 acl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 greeting greet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise up** | past | the sultan | | | | then | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** | past | the sultan *not said here* | sultan's whole court | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent court=Recipient | | 3 | **follow** | to-infinitive | the sultan *not said here* | sultan | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **go out** | past | the sultan *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | the sultan *not said here* | the gazelle | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gazelle=Co-Agent | | 6 | **bound up** | gerund | the gazelle | | sultan | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to he=Destination | | 7 | **give** | past | the sultan *not said here* | | sultan | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **greet** *speech: greet* | gerund | the sultan *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/63/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)