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title: ‘Now,’ said he to the gazelle, ‘take these things with the soldiers… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now,’ said he to the gazelle, ‘take these things with the soldiers to the sultan, that he may be able to come.’ Who acts: sultan. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 67

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‘Now,’ said he to the gazelle, ‘take these things with the soldiers to the sultan, that he may be able to come.’

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**Who acts:** sultan · **What happens:** say, take, be, come · **To what, where:** things, sultan · **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 (sultan), 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:pg641:15:67
# text = ‘Now,’ said he to the gazelle, ‘take these things with the soldiers to the sultan, that he may be able to come.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
13	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sultan	sultan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sultan |  |  |  | now | to the gazelle | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to gazelle=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | infinitive |  | this things |  | the sultan |  | with the soldiers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme to sultan=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | may | sultan |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | sultan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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