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title: ‘Master!’ said the gazelle when the man was ready, ‘be sure that whe… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Master!’ said the gazelle when the man was ready, ‘be sure that where we are going you keep silence, except for giving greetings and asking for news. Who acts: Master, man, we, you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 81

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‘Master!’ said the gazelle when the man was ready, ‘be sure that where we are going you keep silence, except for giving greetings and asking for news.

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**Who acts:** Master, man, we, you · **What happens:** say, be, go, keep, give, ask · **To what, where:** gazelle, silence, greetings · **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 (Master, man, we, you), 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:pg641:15:81
# text = ‘Master!’ said the gazelle when the man was ready, ‘be sure that where we are going you keep silence, except for giving greetings and asking for news.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
24	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	except	except	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
29	greetings	greeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | Master | the gazelle |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gazelle=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | past | the man |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | present · progressive | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **keep** | present | you | silence |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=Theme |
| 6 | **give** | gerund | you *not said here* | greetings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme |
| 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for news | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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