The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 33
For several months he constantly paid his visits, always in a richer and finer equipage.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: pay, visit · To what, where: visits, richer equipage
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 (Prince), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 months | amod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paid | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 5 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 6 paid | advmod |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 visits | nmod:poss |
| 8 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paid | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 equipage | punct |
| 10 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 equipage | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 equipage | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 equipage | det |
| 13 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 equipage | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 finer | cc |
| 15 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 richer | conj |
| 16 | equipage | equipage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | Prince | Prince's visits | a richer equipage | month | constantly property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |
| 2 | visit | Prince | nom visit «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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