The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 2
But, not to mention the richness of the furniture, which was inestimable, there was such a profuseness throughout that the Prince, instead of ever having seen anything like it, owned that he could not have imagined that there was anything in the world that could come up to it.
Who acts: furniture, richness, anything · What happens: mention, be, see, not imagine, come up · To what, where: anything, profuseness
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 (furniture, richness, anything), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 was | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 richness | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 richness | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 mention | mark |
| 5 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 not | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 richness | det |
| 7 | richness | richness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 furniture | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 furniture | det |
| 10 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 richness | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 inestimable | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 inestimable | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 inestimable | cop |
| 14 | inestimable | inestimable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 furniture | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 richness | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 was | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 owned | cop |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 profuseness | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 profuseness | det |
| 20 | profuseness | profuseness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 was | nsubj |
| 21 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 24 Prince | case |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 Prince | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Prince | det |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 was | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 seen | punct |
| 26 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 30 seen | mark |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 instead | fixed |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 seen | advmod |
| 29 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 seen | aux |
| 30 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 was | advcl |
| 31 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 seen | obj |
| 32 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 anything | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 owned | punct |
| 35 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 imagined | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 imagined | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 imagined | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 imagined | advmod |
| 40 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 imagined | aux |
| 41 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 owned | ccomp |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 was | mark |
| 43 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 was | expl |
| 44 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 imagined | ccomp |
| 45 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 44 was | nsubj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 world | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 world | det |
| 48 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 anything | nmod |
| 49 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 come | nsubj |
| 50 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 come | aux |
| 51 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 anything | acl:relcl |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 come | compound:prt |
| 53 | to | to | ADP | _ | 54 it | case |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 come | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | the furniture | inestimable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund · perfect | anything | ever | like profuseness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | own property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | not imagine | could · perfect | richness | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | come up | could | profuseness | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location |
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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