The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 11
Accordingly they all set out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by an officer of confidence dressed like a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.
Who acts: Princes, each · What happens: set out, dress, attend, mount, equip · To what, where: same gate, city, merchant, confidence, all
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, each), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 gate | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gate | amod |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 city | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 city | det |
| 12 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gate | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dressed | punct |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 dressed | nsubj |
| 15 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 city | acl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 merchant | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 merchant | det |
| 18 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dressed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attended | punct |
| 20 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 merchant | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 officer | case |
| 22 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 officer | det |
| 23 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 attended | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 confidence | case |
| 25 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 officer | nmod |
| 26 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 confidence | acl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 slave | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 slave | det |
| 29 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dressed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mounted | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 mounted | cc |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 mounted | advmod |
| 34 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 set | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 equipped | cc |
| 36 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 mounted | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Princes = prince | the same gate of the city | accordingly, all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dress | participle | each | the city not said here | like a merchant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 3 | attend | participle | a merchant not said here | by a officer of confidence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by officer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dress | participle | confidence not said here | like a slave | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | mount | participle · passive | all | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | equip | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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