The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 41

At first he thought the crier mad, and to inform himself went to a shop, and said to the merchant, who stood at the door: “Pray, sir, is not that man” (pointing to the crier who cried the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses) “mad?

Who acts: crier, merchant, man · What happens: think, inform, go, say, stand, pray · To what, where: crier, shop, merchant, door, man, ivory perspective glass · 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 (crier, merchant, man), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 thought	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crier	det
6	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	obj
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crier	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inform	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 inform	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 inform	mark
11	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 thought	conj
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 inform	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 shop	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 shop	det
16	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 merchant	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 merchant	det
22	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 merchant	acl:relcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 door	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 door	det
28	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 Pray	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 Pray	punct
31	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sir	punct
33	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Pray	vocative
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 man	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 man	advmod
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Pray	obl
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 man	punct
40	(	(	PUNCT	_	41 pointing	punct
41	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 man	acl
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 crier	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 crier	det
44	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pointing	obl
45	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 cried	nsubj
46	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 crier	acl:relcl
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 glass	det
48	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 glass	amod
49	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 glass	compound
50	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 cried	obj
51	at	at	ADP	_	53 purses	case
52	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 purses	nummod
53	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 cried	obl
54	)	)	PUNCT	_	41 pointing	punct
55	“	"	PUNCT	_	56 mad	punct
56	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 pointing	conj
57	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	crier	the crier				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crier=Theme
2	inform speech: other	to-infinitive	crier not said here					vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	past	crier			a shop		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shop=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past			the merchant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to merchant=Recipient
5	stand	past	the merchant			the door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location
6	pray in a quote	infinitive					sir vocative	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	not is a in a quote	present		that man				tree rules
8	point	gerund	that man not said here		the crier			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient
9	cry speech: express	past	the crier	the ivory perspective glass		thirty purses		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Topic

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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