The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 16

He went and lodged at a khan appointed for foreign merchants; and, having learned that there were four principal divisions where merchants of all sorts sold their commodities, and kept shops, and in the midst of which stood the castle, or rather the King’s palace, he went to one of these divisions the next day.

Who acts: Houssain, four principal divisions, merchants · What happens: go, lodge, appoint, learn, be, sell · To what, where: khan, commodities, shops, castle, midst, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Houssain, four principal divisions, merchants), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 lodged	cc
4	lodged	lodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 khan	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 khan	det
7	khan	khan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lodged	obl
8	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 khan	acl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 merchants	case
10	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 merchants	amod
11	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 appointed	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 learned	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 learned	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 learned	aux
16	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 went	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 were	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 were	expl
19	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learned	ccomp
20	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 divisions	nummod
21	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 divisions	amod
22	divisions	division	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 were	nsubj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 sold	advmod
24	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sold	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 sorts	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sorts	det
27	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 merchants	nmod
28	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 divisions	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 commodities	nmod:poss
30	commodities	commodity	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 sold	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kept	cc
33	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 learned	conj
34	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 kept	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 stood	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 stood	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 midst	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 midst	det
39	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stood	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 stood	nsubj
42	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 learned	parataxis
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 castle	det
44	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stood	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 palace	punct
46	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 palace	cc
47	rather	rather	ADV	_	51 palace	advmod
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 King	det
49	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 palace	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 King	case
51	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 stood	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 went	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 went	nsubj
54	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 stood	conj
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 one	case
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	54 went	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 divisions	case
58	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	59 divisions	det
59	divisions	division	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 one	nmod
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 day	det
61	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 day	amod
62	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 divisions	nmod:unmarked
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Houssain					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lodge	past	Houssain not said here			a khan		vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at khan=Location
3	appoint	participle		a khan not said here			for foreign merchants	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	learn	gerund · perfect						vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	be	past	four principal divisions			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sell	past	merchants of all sorts	divisions's commodities				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commodity=Theme
7	keep	participle		shops				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme
8	stand	past		the castle		the midst	the King's palace obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent castle=Theme in midst=Destination
9	go	past	Houssain		one of this divisions the next day			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to one=Initial_Location

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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