The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 19

Then his horse, which was most finely caparisoned, and was as beautiful a creature as any in the Sultan of Indies’ stables, was led to him, and he mounted him with an extraordinary grace; and, after he had bid her a last adieu, set forward on his journey.

Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: caparison, be, lead, mount, bid, set forward · To what, where: horse, Sultan, Ahmed, Fairy, journey

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 (Ahmed), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 caparisoned	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 horse	nmod:poss
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caparisoned	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 caparisoned	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 caparisoned	obj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 caparisoned	aux:pass
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 finely	advmod
8	finely	finely	ADV	_	9 caparisoned	advmod
9	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 creature	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 creature	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 creature	cop
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 creature	case
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 creature	amod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 creature	det
16	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caparisoned	obl
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 any	case
18	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 creature	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 Sultan	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sultan	det
21	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 creature	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 stables	case
23	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 stables	nmod:poss
24	’	's	PART	_	23 Indies	case
25	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 Sultan	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 led	punct
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 led	aux:pass
28	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 caparisoned	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 led	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 mounted	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mounted	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 mounted	nsubj
34	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 led	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 mounted	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 grace	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 grace	det
38	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 grace	amod
39	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mounted	obl
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 bid	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 bid	cc
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 and	punct
43	after	after	SCONJ	_	46 bid	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 bid	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 bid	aux
46	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 caparisoned	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 bid	obj
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 adieu	det
49	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 adieu	amod
50	adieu	adieu	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bid	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 set	punct
52	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 bid	conj
53	forward	forward	ADV	_	52 set	advmod
54	on	on	ADP	_	56 journey	case
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 journey	nmod:poss
56	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 set	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 caparisoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	caparison	past · passive		Ahmed's horse			then	finely property	tree rules
2	is	past				the Sultan of Indies's stables		as a beautiful creature; as any	tree rules
3	lead	past · passive			Ahmed				vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to he=Patient
4	mount	past	Ahmed	horse				with a extraordinary grace	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with grace=Instrument
5	bid	past · perfect	Ahmed	Fairy					tree rules
6	set forward	participle	Ahmed not said here			Ahmed's journey		forward property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination
7	journey		Ahmed						nom journey «act 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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