The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 17
She appointed twenty gentlemen, well mounted and equipped, to attend him.
Who acts: Fairy · What happens: appoint, mount, equip, attend · To what, where: twenty gentlemen, Ahmed
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 (Fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appointed | nsubj |
| 2 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 gentlemen | nummod |
| 4 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 appointed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounted | punct |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 mounted | advmod |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 appointed | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 equipped | cc |
| 9 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mounted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attend | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 attend | mark |
| 12 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 appointed | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 attend | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past | Fairy | twenty gentlemen | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | participle | Fairy not said here | well property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | equip | participle | Fairy not said here | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | attend | to-infinitive | Ahmed | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Goal |
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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