The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 14

But when they came before him they found he had been informed of their arrival by the chief of the Princess’s eunuchs, and by what means the Princess had been perfectly cured.

Who acts: women, chief · What happens: come, find, inform, mean, cure, arrive · To what, where: Prince, Princess · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, chief), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 found	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	advcl
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
8	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 informed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 informed	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 informed	aux:pass
12	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 found	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 arrival	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arrival	nmod:poss
15	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 informed	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 chief	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chief	det
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 informed	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 eunuchs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 eunuchs	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Princess	case
23	eunuchs	eunuch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 chief	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 means	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 means	cc
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 what	case
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 means	nsubj
28	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 found	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Princess	det
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 cured	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cured	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 cured	aux:pass
33	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	34 cured	advmod
34	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 means	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	women = woman		before Prince		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
2	find	past	women = woman				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	inform speech: other	past · perfect · passive	the chief of the Princess's eunuchs	Prince		of women's arrival	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient of arrival=Topic
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cure	past · perfect · passive		the Princess		perfectly property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
6	arrive		women = woman				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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