The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 38

“Certainly,” said he to himself, “neither I nor any man living could shoot an arrow so far,” and, finding it laid flat, not sticking into the ground, he judged that it rebounded against the rock.

Who acts: Ahmed, man, place · What happens: say, live, shoot, find, lay, not stick · To what, where: Ahmed, arrow, ground · 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 (Ahmed, man, place), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
11	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 I	cc:preconj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 shoot	nsubj
13	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	15 man	cc
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 I	conj
16	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 man	acl
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 shoot	aux
18	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 arrow	det
20	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoot	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 far	advmod
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 shoot	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 far	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 shoot	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 finding	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 finding	punct
27	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 laid	nsubj
29	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 finding	ccomp
30	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 laid	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sticking	punct
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 sticking	advmod
33	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 finding	conj
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sticking	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 judged	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 judged	nsubj
39	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 rebounded	mark
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 rebounded	nsubj
42	rebounded	rebound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 judged	advcl
43	against	against	ADP	_	45 rock	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 rock	det
45	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 rebounded	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ahmed		Ahmed		certainly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	live in a quote	gerund	any man not said here					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot in a quote	could	Ahmed	a arrow			far property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
4	find	gerund	Ahmed not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	lay	past	place				flat property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not stick	gerund	Ahmed not said here			the ground		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into ground=Destination
7	judge	past	Ahmed					vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
8	rebound	past	place				against the rock	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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