The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 42
The magician, seeing him coming, followed him with her eyes, till on a sudden she lost sight of him and his attendants.
Who acts: magician, discourse · What happens: see, come, follow, lose, sight · To what, where: magician, Prince, sight
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 (magician, discourse), 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 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 magician | acl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 seeing | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 magician | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sudden | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 sudden | mark |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sudden | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sudden | det |
| 17 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 followed | parataxis |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lost | nsubj |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sudden | ccomp |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lost | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sight | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 attendants | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 him | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the magician not said here | magician | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the magician not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | past | the magician | Prince | with discourse's eyes | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | lose | past | discourse | sight of Prince | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | sight | Prince | nom sight «cognition 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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