--- title: The sultan watched them till they were out of sight: then he said to… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The sultan watched them till they were out of sight: then he said to his attendants, ‘That gazelle comes from gentle hands, from the house of a sultan, and that is what makes it so different from other gazelles.’ Who acts: sultan, Gazelles, gazelle, that. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by And --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/76/) [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/) / 76 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 76 The sultan watched them till they were out of sight: then he said to his attendants, ‘That gazelle comes from gentle hands, from the house of a sultan, and that is what makes it so different from other gazelles.’ **Who acts:** sultan, Gazelles, gazelle, that · **What happens:** watch, be, say, come, make · **To what, where:** Gazelles, sight, attendants, gentle hands, house · **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, Gazelles, gazelle, that), 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:pg641:15:76 # text = The sultan watched them till they were out of sight: then he said to his attendants, ‘That gazelle comes from gentle hands, from the house of a sultan, and that is what makes it so different from other gazelles.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 watched watch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ _ 5 till till SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 12 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 attendants attendant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ‘ SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 20 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 38 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 gazelles gazelle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past | the sultan | Gazelles *= gazelle* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | Gazelles *= gazelle* | | | sight | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | sultan | | sultan's attendants | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to attendant=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | present | that gazelle | | | gentle hands | | from the house of a sultan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location from house=Destination | | 5 | **is a** | present | that | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | present | | house | | | | different *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/77/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)