The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 19

The shops were all of a size, and all that dealt in the same sort of goods lived in one street; as also the handicrafts-men, who kept their shops in the smaller streets.

Who acts: shops, handicrafts, men · What happens: deal, live, man, keep, sort · To what, where: same sort, one street, shops, smaller streets, goods

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 (shops, handicrafts, men), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shops	det
2	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lived	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 all	cop
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 shops	conj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 size	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 size	det
7	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dealt	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dealt	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dealt	det:predet
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 dealt	nsubj
12	dealt	deal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shops	acl:relcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 sort	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sort	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sort	amod
16	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dealt	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 goods	case
18	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	16 sort	nmod
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 street	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 street	nummod
22	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 also	advmod
25	also	also	ADV	_	29 men	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 handicrafts	det
27	handicrafts	handicraft	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 men	nsubj
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 handicrafts	punct
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lived	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kept	punct
31	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 kept	nsubj
32	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 men	acl:relcl
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 shops	nmod:poss
34	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kept	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	38 streets	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 streets	det
37	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 streets	amod
38	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	deal	past	the shops		the same sort of goods	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	live	past	the shops		one street	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location
3	man		the handicrafts			tree rules
4	keep	past	men	streets's shops	the smaller streets	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shop=Theme in street=Location
5	sort			goods		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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