The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 21
The people, glad to see him again, received him with acclamations of joy, and followed him in crowds to the Sultan’s apartment.
Who acts: people · What happens: see, receive, follow, acclaim · To what, where: Ahmed, crowds, joy
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 (people), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | conj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 glad | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 people | punct |
| 10 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 received | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 acclamations | case |
| 13 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 received | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 joy | case |
| 15 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acclamations | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 received | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 followed | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 crowds | case |
| 21 | crowds | crowd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 followed | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 apartment | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Sultan | det |
| 24 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Sultan | case |
| 26 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 followed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | the people not said here | Ahmed | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | receive | past | the people | Ahmed | with acclamations of joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the people not said here | Ahmed | crowds | to the Sultan's apartment | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in crowd=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | acclaim | joy | nom acclamation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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