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title: And the gazelle said to him, ‘Get up, my master, and bathe in the st… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the gazelle said to him, ‘Get up, my master, and bathe in the stream!’ and when the man had bathed it said again, ‘Now rub yourself well with earth, and rub your teeth well with sand to make them bright and shining.’ Who acts: gazelle, man, stream. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 79

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And the gazelle said to him, ‘Get up, my master, and bathe in the stream!’ and when the man had bathed it said again, ‘Now rub yourself well with earth, and rub your teeth well with sand to make them bright and shining.’

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**Who acts:** gazelle, man, stream · **What happens:** say, get up, bathe, bath, rub, make · **To what, where:** sultan, yourself, teeth, Gazelles · **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, man, stream), 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:pg641:15:79
# text = And the gazelle said to him, ‘Get up, my master, and bathe in the stream!’ and when the man had bathed it said again, ‘Now rub yourself well with earth, and rub your teeth well with sand to make them bright and shining.’
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	bathed	bath	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	34	advmod	_	_
34	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	34	obj	_	_
36	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	rub	rub	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
42	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	_
44	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	41	advmod	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
49	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	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 | the gazelle |  | sultan |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **get up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **bathe** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in the stream | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in stream=Theme |
| 4 | **bath** | past · perfect | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | stream |  |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **rub** | infinitive | stream *not said here* | yourself |  |  | now | with earth; well *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Destination with earth=Theme |
| 7 | **rub** | infinitive | the gazelle *not said here* | your teeth |  |  |  | with sand; well *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Destination with sand=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | the gazelle *not said here* | Gazelles *= gazelle* |  |  |  | bright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
| 9 | **shine** | gerund | the gazelle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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