The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 10

They then sat down on the carpet, wished themselves with her, and were there in a moment.

Who acts: experiments · What happens: sit down, wish, be · To what, where: carpet, experiments

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (experiments), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 sat	compound:prt
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 carpet	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 carpet	det
7	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wished	punct
9	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 wished	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 her	case
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wished	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 there	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 there	cc
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 there	cop
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	parataxis
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 moment	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 moment	det
19	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 there	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	experiments = experiment		the carpet	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on carpet=Location
2	wish	past	experiments = experiment not said here	experiments = experiment			with Princess	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot themselves=Theme
3	is	past				moment	there property	tree rules

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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