--- title: Directly the gazelle saw them coming, it said to its master: ‘Your f… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Directly the gazelle saw them coming, it said to its master: ‘Your father-in-law is coming to meet you; that is he in the middle, wearing a mantle of sky-blue. Who acts: gazelle, viziers, city, father. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/92/) [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/) / 92 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 92 Directly the gazelle saw them coming, it said to its master: ‘Your father-in-law is coming to meet you; that is he in the middle, wearing a mantle of sky-blue. **Who acts:** gazelle, viziers, city, father, that · **What happens:** see, come, say, meet, be, wear · **To what, where:** viziers, master, you, middle, mantle · **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 (gazelle, viziers, city, father), 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:pg641:15:92 # text = Directly the gazelle saw them coming, it said to its master: ‘Your father-in-law is coming to meet you; that is he in the middle, wearing a mantle of sky-blue. 1 Directly directly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 wearing wear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the gazelle | viziers *= vizier* | | | | directly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | gerund | viziers *= vizier* *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | city | | city's master | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | present · progressive | Your father in law | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Your father in law *not said here* | you | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | that | | | the middle | | | tree rules | | 7 | **wear** | gerund | the gazelle *not said here* | a mantle of sky blue | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mantle=Source | 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 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/91/) - next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/93/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)