The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 40

Among all the criers who passed backward and forward with several sorts of goods, offering to sell them, he was not a little surprised to see one who held an ivory telescope in his hand of about a foot in length and the thickness of a man’s thumb, and cried it at thirty purses.

Who acts: criers, crier · What happens: pass, offer, sell, not be, see, hold · To what, where: goods, one, ivory telescope, hand, telescope, thirty purses

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 (criers, crier), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	4 criers	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 criers	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 criers	det
4	criers	crier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 surprised	obl
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 passed	nsubj
6	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 criers	acl
7	backward	backward	ADV	_	6 passed	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 forward	cc
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 backward	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 sorts	case
11	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorts	amod
12	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 passed	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 goods	case
14	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	12 sorts	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 offering	punct
16	offering	offer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 passed	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sell	mark
18	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 offering	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sell	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 criers	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 surprised	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surprised	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 surprised	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 surprised	obl:unmarked
26	surprised	surprised	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 surprised	advcl
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 see	obj
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 held	nsubj
31	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 one	acl:relcl
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 telescope	det
33	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 telescope	compound
34	telescope	telescope	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 held	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 hand	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 hand	nmod:poss
37	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 held	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 foot	case
39	about	about	ADV	_	41 foot	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 foot	det
41	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hand	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 length	case
43	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 foot	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thickness	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 thickness	det
46	thickness	thickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 foot	conj
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 thumb	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 man	det
49	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 thumb	nmod:poss
50	’s	's	PART	_	49 man	case
51	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 thickness	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 cried	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 cried	cc
54	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 surprised	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 cried	obj
56	at	at	ADP	_	58 purses	case
57	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 purses	nummod
58	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 cried	obl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 surprised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past	all criers			with several sorts of goods; backward property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	offer	gerund	all criers not said here				tree rules
3	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	all criers not said here	goods			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not is	past	crier			among all criers; a little obl:unmarked; surprised property	tree rules
5	see	to-infinitive	crier not said here	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
6	hold	past		a ivory telescope	crier's hand of a foot in length and the thickness of a man's thumb		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent telescope=Theme in hand=Location
7	cry speech: express	past	crier not said here	telescope	thirty purses		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
8	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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