The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 33

In this manner Prince Houssain became the possessor of the tapestry, and was overjoyed that at his arrival at Bisnagar he had found so rare a piece, which he never disputed would gain him the hand of Nouronnihar.

Who acts: Prince, crier, piece · What happens: become, overjoy, find, not dispute, gain, arrive · To what, where: possessor, manner, arrival, piece, hand, crier · 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, crier, piece), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 manner	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 manner	det
3	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
5	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Prince	flat
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 possessor	det
8	possessor	possessor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tapestry	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tapestry	det
11	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 possessor	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 overjoyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 overjoyed	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 overjoyed	aux:pass
15	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 found	mark
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 arrival	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 arrival	nmod:poss
19	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 Bisnagar	case
21	Bisnagar	Bisnagar	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 arrival	nmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	aux
24	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 overjoyed	advcl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 rare	advmod
26	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 found	xcomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 piece	det
28	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gain	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 disputed	punct
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 disputed	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 disputed	nsubj
32	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	33 disputed	advmod
33	disputed	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 piece	acl:relcl
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 gain	aux
35	gain	gain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 found	ccomp
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 gain	obj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 hand	det
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gain	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Nouronnihar	case
40	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 hand	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	become	past	Prince	the possessor of the tapestry			in this manner result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in manner=Result
2	overjoy	past · passive	Prince not said here					tree rules
3	find	past · perfect	crier			crier's arrival at Bisnagar	rare property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not dispute	past	crier	a piece				tree rules
5	gain	would	a piece	the hand of Nouronnihar	crier			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary hand=Theme
6	arrive		crier			Bisnagar		nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent at=place

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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