The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 13

While the Princess was dressing the Princes went to throw themselves at the Sultan their father’s feet, and pay their respects to him.

Who acts: Princess, Princes · What happens: dress, go, throw, pay · To what, where: women, Sultan, respects, Prince

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 (Princess, Princes), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 dressing	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dressing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dressing	aux
5	dressing	dress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 went	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princes	det
7	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 throw	mark
10	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 went	xcomp
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 throw	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 Sultan	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 throw	obl
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feet	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 father	case
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 throw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pay	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pay	cc
21	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 throw	conj
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 respects	nmod:poss
23	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pay	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pay	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	dress	past · progressive	the Princess				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the Princes				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw	to-infinitive	the Princes not said here	women = woman		the Sultan	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Destination foot=Theme
4	pay	infinitive	the Princes not said here	women's respects	Prince		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset

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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