The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 47
At last he returned the lady’s compliment by throwing himself at her feet, and, rising up again, said to her:
Who acts: Prince, lady · What happens: return, throw, rise up, say, compliment · To what, where: compliment, last, Prince, feet, lady · 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, lady), 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 | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 compliment | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 8 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obj |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 throwing | mark |
| 10 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 throwing | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 feet | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 throwing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 said | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 rising | compound:prt |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 rising | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rising | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Prince | the lady's compliment | last | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compliment=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince | lady's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | rise up | gerund | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Prince not said here | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | compliment | the lady | nom compliment «communication 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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