The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 28

When they were out of his presence they each provided themselves with a bow and arrow, which they delivered to one of their officers, and went to the plain appointed, followed by a great concourse of people.

Who acts: horses, presence · What happens: be, provide, deliver, go, appoint, follow · To what, where: presence, horses, arrow, one, plain

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 (horses, presence), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 presence	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 presence	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 presence	cop
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 presence	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 presence	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 presence	nmod:poss
7	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provided	nsubj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 provided	nsubj
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 they	det
10	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 provided	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 bow	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bow	det
14	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 provided	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 arrow	cc
16	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bow	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 delivered	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 delivered	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 delivered	nsubj
20	delivered	deliver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 arrow	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 one	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 delivered	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 officers	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 officers	nmod:poss
25	officers	officer	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 one	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 went	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 went	cc
28	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 provided	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 plain	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 plain	det
31	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 went	obl
32	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 plain	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 followed	punct
34	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 appointed	conj
35	by	by	ADP	_	38 concourse	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 concourse	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 concourse	amod
38	concourse	concourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 appointed	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 people	case
40	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 concourse	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 provided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	horses = horse			Prince's presence		tree rules
2	provide	past	Prince's presence	horses = horse			with a bow and arrow	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with bow=Theme
3	deliver	past	horses = horse	arrow	one of horses's officers			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme to one=Destination
4	go	past	Prince's presence not said here			the plain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location
5	appoint	participle		the plain not said here			by a great concourse of people	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	follow	participle						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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