The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 59

Prince Ahmed, who took the road of Samarcand, the next day after his arrival there went, as his brothers had done, into the bezestein, where he had not walked long but heard a crier, who had an artificial apple in his hand, cry it at five and thirty purses; upon which he stopped the crier, and said to him: “Let me see that apple, and tell me what virtue and extraordinary properties it has, to be valued at so high a rate.”

Who acts: Prince Ahmed, brothers, brother, crier, virtue, Ahmed · What happens: take, go, do, not walk, hear, have · To what, where: road, bezestein, crier, artificial apple, hand, apple · 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 Ahmed, brothers, brother, 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ahmed	compound
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Samarcand	case
9	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 road	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl:unmarked
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 arrival	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 arrival	nmod:poss
16	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 went	advmod
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 done	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 done	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 brothers	nmod:poss
22	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 done	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	aux
24	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 went	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bezestein	punct
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 bezestein	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bezestein	det
28	bezestein	bezestein	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 done	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 walked	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 walked	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 walked	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 walked	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 walked	advmod
34	walked	walk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 bezestein	acl:relcl
35	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 walked	advmod
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 heard	cc
37	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 done	conj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 crier	det
39	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heard	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 had	punct
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 had	nsubj
42	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 crier	acl:relcl
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 apple	det
44	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 apple	amod
45	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 had	obj
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 hand	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 hand	nmod:poss
48	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 apple	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 cry	punct
50	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 heard	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 cry	obj
52	at	at	ADP	_	53 five	case
53	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 purses	nummod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 thirty	cc
55	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	53 five	conj
56	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 cry	obj
57	;	;	PUNCT	_	61 stopped	punct
58	upon	upon	ADP	_	59 which	case
59	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	61 stopped	obl
60	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 stopped	nsubj
61	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 went	conj
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 crier	det
63	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 stopped	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 said	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 said	cc
66	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 took	conj
67	to	to	ADP	_	68 him	case
68	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	66 said	obl
69	:	:	PUNCT	_	71 Let	punct
70	“	"	PUNCT	_	71 Let	punct
71	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	66 said	ccomp
72	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	71 Let	obj
73	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 Let	xcomp
74	that	that	SCONJ	_	75 apple	mark
75	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	73 see	obj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	78 tell	punct
77	and	and	CCONJ	_	78 tell	cc
78	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 Let	conj
79	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	78 tell	iobj
80	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	81 virtue	det
81	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	78 tell	obj
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 properties	cc
83	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 properties	amod
84	properties	property	NOUN	Number=Plur	81 virtue	conj
85	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	86 has	nsubj
86	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	84 properties	acl:relcl
87	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 valued	punct
88	to	to	PART	_	90 valued	mark
89	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	90 valued	aux:pass
90	valued	value	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	78 tell	parataxis
91	at	at	ADP	_	93 high	case
92	so	so	ADV	_	93 high	advmod
93	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	90 valued	conj
94	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	95 rate	det
95	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	93 high	nsubj
96	.	.	PUNCT	_	71 Let	punct
97	”	"	PUNCT	_	71 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Prince Ahmed	the road of Samarcand					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
2	go	past	Prince Ahmed not said here			there	day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	do	past · perfect	Ahmed's brothers			the bezestein			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not walk	past · perfect	brother					long property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hear	past	Ahmed's brothers not said here	a crier					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crier=Stimulus
6	have	past	a crier	a artificial apple		Ahmed's hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient
7	cry speech: express	infinitive	Ahmed's brothers not said here	apple					tree rules
8	stop	past	brother	the crier					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector crier=Eventuality
9	say speech: assert	past	Prince Ahmed not said here		Ahmed				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
10	let in a quote	infinitive		Prince Ahmed = ahmed					tree rules
11	see in a quote	infinitive	Prince Ahmed = ahmed not said here	apple					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus
12	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		what virtue and extraordinary properties	Prince Ahmed = ahmed				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient virtue=Topic
13	have in a quote	present	virtue	extraordinary properties not said here					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient
14	value in a quote	to-infinitive · passive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
15	arrive		Ahmed						nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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