The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 10

He found also the same excellence in the wines, which neither he nor the Fairy tasted of till the dessert was served up, which consisted of the choicest sweetmeats and fruits.

Who acts: entertainment, wines · What happens: find, taste, serve up, consist · To what, where: same excellence, wines

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (entertainment, wines), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	also	also	ADV	_	2 found	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 excellence	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 excellence	amod
6	excellence	excellence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 wines	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wines	det
9	wines	wine	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tasted	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 tasted	obj
12	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	13 he	cc:preconj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tasted	nsubj
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	16 Fairy	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Fairy	det
16	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 he	conj
17	tasted	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wines	parataxis
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 dessert	case
19	till	till	ADP	_	21 dessert	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dessert	det
21	dessert	dessert	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 served	obl
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 served	aux:pass
23	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tasted	conj
24	up	up	ADP	_	23 served	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 consisted	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 consisted	nsubj
27	consisted	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wines	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 sweetmeats	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sweetmeats	det
30	choicest	choice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 sweetmeats	amod
31	sweetmeats	sweetmeat	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 consisted	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fruits	cc
33	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 sweetmeats	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	entertainment	the same excellence	the wines		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excellence=Topic
2	taste	past	entertainment	the wines			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme which=Attribute
3	serve up	past · passive	entertainment not said here			of the dessert	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»
4	consist	past	the wines			of the choicest sweetmeats and fruits	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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