--- title: The next morning the gazelle went to the rooms of the sultan, and sa… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next morning the gazelle went to the rooms of the sultan, and said to him: ‘My lord, we want you to marry us our wife, for the soul of Sultan Darai is eager.’ Who acts: gazelle, lord, you, soul. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gazelle, lord, you, soul), 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:pg641:15:95 # text = The next morning the gazelle went to the rooms of the sultan, and said to him: ‘My lord, we want you to marry us our wife, for the soul of Sultan Darai is eager.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 gazelle gazelle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 xcomp _ _ 28 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 37 Darai Darai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 flat _ _ 38 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 39 eager eager ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the gazelle | | | the rooms of the sultan | morning | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the gazelle *not said here* | | sultan | | | | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 3 | **want** | present | My lord | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | present | the soul of Sultan | | | | | eager *property* | tree rules | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/96/) - ↑ back to [The Story of a Gazelle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/15/)