The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 38

So he sent for a female magician, who was introduced by a back door into his apartment.

Who acts: Son, back door · What happens: send, introduce · To what, where: apartment, female magician

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 (Son, back door), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 magician	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 magician	det
6	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 magician	amod
7	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 introduced	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 introduced	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 introduced	aux:pass
11	introduced	introduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 magician	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 door	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 door	det
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 door	compound
15	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 introduced	obl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 apartment	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 apartment	nmod:poss
18	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Son			Son's apartment		for a female magician	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	introduce	past · passive	a back door	a female magician					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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