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title: And the gazelle answered: ‘Can I take those soldiers to go and put m… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the gazelle answered: ‘Can I take those soldiers to go and put my master to shame as he lies there naked? Who acts: gazelle, I, 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 68

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And the gazelle answered: ‘Can I take those soldiers to go and put my master to shame as he lies there naked?

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**Who acts:** gazelle, I, sultan · **What happens:** answer, take, go, put, shame, lie · **To what, where:** soldiers, master · **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 (gazelle, I, 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:pg641:15:68
# text = And the gazelle answered: ‘Can I take those soldiers to go and put my master to shame as he lies there naked?
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	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
24	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the gazelle |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | can | I | that soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my master |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent master=Goal |
| 5 | **shame** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **lie** | present | sultan |  |  | there |  | naked *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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