The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 23

The Prince called to the crier, and asked to see the tapestry, which seemed to him to be valued at an exorbitant price, not only for the size of it, but the meanness of the stuff; when he had examined it well, he told the crier that he could not comprehend how so small a piece of tapestry, and of so indifferent appearance, could be set at so high a price.

Who acts: Prince, tapestry, air · What happens: call, ask, see, seem, value, examine · To what, where: Prince, crier, tapestry, air, exorbitant price, meanness · 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 (Prince, tapestry, air), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Prince	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 crier	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crier	det
6	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tapestry	det
13	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 see	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seemed	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 seemed	nsubj
16	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 tapestry	acl:relcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 seemed	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	21 valued	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 valued	aux:pass
21	valued	value	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 seemed	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 price	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 price	det
24	exorbitant	exorbitant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 price	amod
25	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 valued	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 size	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 size	advmod
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 size	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 size	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 size	det
31	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 price	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 size	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 examined	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 examined	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 meanness	det
37	meanness	meanness	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 examined	nsubj:pass
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 stuff	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stuff	det
40	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meanness	nmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 examined	punct
42	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	45 examined	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 examined	nsubj
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 examined	aux
45	examined	examine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asked	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 examined	obj
47	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 examined	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 told	punct
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 told	nsubj
50	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 crier	det
52	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 told	iobj
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 comprehend	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 comprehend	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 comprehend	aux
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 comprehend	advmod
57	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 told	ccomp
58	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	60 small	advmod
59	so	so	ADV	_	60 small	advmod
60	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 comprehend	ccomp
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 piece	det
62	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 small	nsubj
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 tapestry	case
64	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 piece	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 set	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	74 set	cc
67	of	of	ADP	_	70 appearance	case
68	so	so	ADV	_	69 indifferent	advmod
69	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 appearance	amod
70	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 set	obl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 appearance	punct
72	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	74 set	aux
73	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	74 set	aux:pass
74	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asked	ccomp
75	at	at	ADP	_	77 high	case
76	so	so	ADV	_	77 high	advmod
77	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	74 set	conj
78	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	79 price	det
79	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 high	nsubj
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	participle		the Prince not said here	the crier			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Prince					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Prince not said here	the tapestry				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tapestry=Stimulus
4	seem	past	the tapestry		air			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	value	to-infinitive · passive	the tapestry not said here			a exorbitant price		vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: at price=Value
6	examine	past · perfect · passive		the meanness of the stuff			well property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme it=Attribute
7	tell speech: assert	past	air		the crier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent crier=Recipient clause=Topic
8	not comprehend	could	air					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
9	set	could · passive					of indifferent appearance	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»

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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