The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 35

With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s and Ali’s were gathered up, and, going straight forward from there, looking carefully on both sides of him, he went so far that at last he began to think his labor was all in vain; but yet he could not help going forward till he came to some steep craggy rocks, which were bounds to his journey, and were situated in a barren country, about four leagues distant from where he set out.

Who acts: Prince, labor, steep craggy rocks · What happens: go, gather up, look, begin, think, be · To what, where: place, Princes Houssain, last, steep craggy rocks, barren country · 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 (Prince, labor, steep craggy rocks), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 intent	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 intent	det
3	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 gathered	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Houssain	det
11	Princes	Prince	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 Houssain	compound
12	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 gathered	nsubj:pass
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Houssain	case
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Ali	cc
15	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Houssain	conj
16	’s	's	PART	_	12 Houssain	case
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 gathered	aux:pass
18	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 place	acl:relcl
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 gathered	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 going	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 went	advcl
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	25 forward	advmod
25	forward	forward	ADV	_	23 going	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 there	case
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 going	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 looking	punct
29	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 going	conj
30	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	29 looking	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 sides	case
32	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	33 sides	det
33	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 looking	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 him	case
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sides	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
39	so	so	ADV	_	40 far	advmod
40	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 went	advmod
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 last	mark
42	at	at	ADP	_	43 last	case
43	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 went	obl
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 began	nsubj
45	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 last	acl:relcl
46	to	to	PART	_	47 think	mark
47	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 began	xcomp
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 labor	nmod:poss
49	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 vain	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 vain	cop
51	all	all	ADV	_	53 vain	advmod
52	in	in	ADP	_	53 vain	case
53	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 think	ccomp
54	;	;	PUNCT	_	60 help	punct
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	60 help	cc
56	yet	yet	ADV	_	60 help	advmod
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 help	nsubj
58	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 help	aux
59	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	60 help	advmod
60	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 went	conj
61	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	60 help	xcomp
62	forward	forward	ADV	_	61 going	advmod
63	till	till	SCONJ	_	65 came	mark
64	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	65 came	nsubj
65	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	61 going	advcl
66	to	to	ADP	_	70 rocks	case
67	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	70 rocks	det
68	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 rocks	amod
69	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 rocks	amod
70	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	65 came	obl
71	,	,	PUNCT	_	74 bounds	punct
72	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	74 bounds	nsubj
73	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	74 bounds	cop
74	bounds	bound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	70 rocks	conj
75	to	to	ADP	_	77 journey	case
76	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	77 journey	nmod:poss
77	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	74 bounds	obl
78	,	,	PUNCT	_	81 situated	punct
79	and	and	CCONJ	_	81 situated	cc
80	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	81 situated	aux:pass
81	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 went	parataxis
82	in	in	ADP	_	85 country	case
83	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	85 country	det
84	barren	barren	ADJ	Degree=Pos	85 country	amod
85	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	81 situated	obl
86	,	,	PUNCT	_	90 distant	punct
87	about	about	ADV	_	88 four	advmod
88	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	89 leagues	nummod
89	leagues	league	NOUN	Number=Plur	90 distant	obl:unmarked
90	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	81 situated	conj
91	from	from	ADP	_	92 where	case
92	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	94 set	advmod
93	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	94 set	nsubj
94	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	90 distant	conj
95	out	out	ADP	_	94 set	compound:prt
96	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Prince		the place		with this intent	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	gather up	past · passive		the Princes Houssain and Ali				vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	go	gerund	Prince not said here				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from there=Initial_Location
4	look	gerund	Prince not said here				on both sides of Prince; carefully property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme
5	go	past	Prince		last		far property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location
6	begin	past	Prince					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is	past	Prince's labor				all, vain property	tree rules
9	not help	could	Prince			yet		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	go not said to happen	gerund	Prince not said here				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	come	past	Prince		some steep craggy rocks			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location
12	is	past	some steep craggy rocks				to Prince's journey; bound property	tree rules
13	situate	past · passive			a barren country			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in country=Destination
14	set out	past	Prince					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
15	journey		Prince					nom journey «act transitive»: 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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