The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 44

At the same time a lady of majestic port and air advanced as far as the porch, attended by a large troop of ladies, so finely dressed and beautiful that it was difficult to distinguish which was the mistress.

What happens: advance, attend, dress, be, distinguish · To what, where: air, majestic port, lady, mistress

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lady	det
6	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 port	case
8	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 port	amod
9	port	port	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lady	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 air	cc
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 port	conj
12	advanced	advance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 air	acl
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 far	advmod
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 porch	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 porch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 porch	det
17	porch	porch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 advanced	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 attended	punct
19	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 port	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 troop	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 troop	det
22	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 troop	amod
23	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 attended	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 ladies	case
25	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 troop	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dressed	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 dressed	advmod
28	finely	finely	ADV	_	29 dressed	advmod
29	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 lady	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 beautiful	cc
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dressed	conj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 difficult	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 difficult	expl
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 difficult	cop
35	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beautiful	advcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 distinguish	mark
37	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 difficult	csubj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 mistress	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 mistress	cop
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 mistress	det
41	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 distinguish	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advance	participle	air not said here	as the porch	vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	attend	participle	majestic port and air not said here	by a large troop of ladies	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by troop=Theme
3	dress	participle	a lady of majestic port and air not said here	finely property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past		difficult property	tree rules
5	distinguish	to-infinitive			vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	the mistress		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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