The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 5

While the crier informed Prince Ahmed of the virtues of the artificial apple, a great many persons came about them and confirmed what he said; and one among the rest said he had a friend dangerously ill, whose life was despaired of; and that was a favorable opportunity to show Prince Ahmed the experiment.

Who acts: crier, great many persons, one, that · What happens: inform, come, confirm, say, have, despair · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, friend, life, favorable opportunity, experiment · 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 (crier, great many persons, one, that), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 informed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crier	det
3	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 informed	nsubj
4	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ahmed	compound
6	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 informed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 virtues	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 virtues	det
9	virtues	virtue	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Ahmed	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 apple	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 apple	det
12	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 apple	amod
13	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 virtues	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 persons	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 persons	amod
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 persons	amod
18	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Ahmed	acl:relcl
20	about	about	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 came	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 confirmed	cc
23	confirmed	confirm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 confirmed	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 what	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 said	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 said	cc
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 said	nsubj
30	among	among	ADP	_	32 rest	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 rest	det
32	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 one	nmod
33	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 informed	conj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 had	nsubj
35	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 said	ccomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 friend	det
37	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 had	obj
38	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	_	39 ill	advmod
39	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 friend	amod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 despaired	punct
41	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	42 life	nmod:poss
42	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 despaired	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 despaired	aux:pass
44	despaired	despair	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 friend	acl
45	of	of	ADP	_	44 despaired	obl
46	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 opportunity	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 opportunity	cc
48	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 opportunity	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 opportunity	cop
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 opportunity	det
51	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 opportunity	amod
52	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 informed	ccomp
53	to	to	PART	_	54 show	mark
54	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 opportunity	acl
55	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Ahmed	compound
56	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 show	obj
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 experiment	det
58	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 show	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	the crier		Prince Ahmed of the virtues of the artificial apple		vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ahmed=Recipient
2	come	past	a great many persons	Prince Ahmed of the virtues of the artificial apple not said here		about virtues = virtue	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ahmed=Theme
3	confirm	past	a great many persons not said here				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	crier				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	one among the rest				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	have	past	crier	a friend			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
7	despair	past · passive		life			tree rules
8	is a	past	that	a favorable opportunity			tree rules
9	show	to-infinitive	the crier not said here	the experiment	Prince Ahmed		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Recipient experiment=Topic

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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