The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 18

It was large, and divided into several streets, all vaulted and shaded from the sun, and yet very light too.

Who acts: merchant · What happens: be, divide, vault, shade · To what, where: several streets

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 (merchant), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 large	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 large	cop
3	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 divided	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 divided	cc
6	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 large	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 streets	case
8	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 streets	amod
9	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 divided	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 vaulted	punct
11	all	all	ADV	_	12 vaulted	advmod
12	vaulted	vault	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 streets	acl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shaded	cc
14	shaded	shade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 vaulted	conj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sun	det
17	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shaded	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 light	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 light	cc
20	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 light	advmod
21	very	very	ADV	_	22 light	advmod
22	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 large	conj
23	too	too	ADV	_	22 light	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	merchant				large property	tree rules
2	divide	participle	merchant not said here		several streets			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	vault	participle		several streets not said here			all property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shade	participle					from the sun	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent from sun=Theme
5	be		merchant not said here			yet		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 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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