The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 43

As the rocks were very steep and craggy, they were an insurmountable barrier, so that the magician judged that there were but two things for it: either that the Prince retired into some cavern, or an abode of genies or fairies.

Who acts: rocks, magician, two things, Prince · What happens: be, judge, retire · To what, where: insurmountable barrier, abode, cavern

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 (rocks, magician, two things, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	6 steep	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rocks	det
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steep	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 steep	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 steep	advmod
6	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 judged	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 craggy	cc
8	craggy	craggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 steep	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 barrier	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 barrier	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 barrier	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 barrier	det
13	insurmountable	insurmountable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 barrier	amod
14	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steep	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 judged	punct
16	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 judged	mark
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 so	fixed
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 magician	det
19	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 judged	nsubj
20	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 were	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 judged	advcl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 things	cc
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 things	nummod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 were	nsubj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 things	nmod
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 retired	punct
30	either	either	CCONJ	_	34 retired	cc:preconj
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 retired	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Prince	det
33	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 retired	nsubj
34	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 things	acl:relcl
35	into	into	ADP	_	37 cavern	case
36	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	37 cavern	det
37	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 retired	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 abode	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 abode	cc
40	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 abode	det
41	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 retired	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 genies	case
43	genies	genie	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 abode	nmod
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	45 fairies	cc
45	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 genies	conj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 judged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rocks			steep property	tree rules
2	be		the rocks not said here				tree rules
3	is a	past	rocks = rock	a insurmountable barrier			tree rules
4	judge	past	the magician				vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
5	be	past	two things for barrier		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	retire	past	the Prince	a abode of genies or fairies	some cavern		vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Attribute

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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