The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 44
Thereupon she came out of the place where she was hid and went directly to the hollow way, which she traced till she came to the farther end, looking carefully about on all sides; but, notwithstanding all her diligence, could perceive no opening, not so much as the iron gate which Prince Ahmed discovered, which was to be seen and opened to none but men, and only to such whose presence was agreeable to the Fairy Paribanou.
Who acts: Fairy, notwithstanding, Prince Ahmed, such presence · What happens: come out, be, go, trace, come, look · To what, where: place, hollow way, farther end, diligence, opening, iron gate
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 (Fairy, notwithstanding, Prince Ahmed, such presence), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 place | det |
| 7 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 hid | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hid | cop |
| 11 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 14 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 17 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 way | amod |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 traced | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 traced | obj |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 traced | nsubj |
| 22 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 way | acl:relcl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 came | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 traced | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 end | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 end | det |
| 28 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 end | amod |
| 29 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 looking | punct |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 came | advcl |
| 32 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 33 about | advmod |
| 33 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 looking | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 sides | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 sides | det |
| 36 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 looking | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 perceive | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 perceive | cc |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 notwithstanding | punct |
| 40 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 perceive | csubj |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 diligence | det:predet |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 diligence | nmod:poss |
| 43 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 notwithstanding | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 notwithstanding | punct |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 perceive | aux |
| 46 | perceive | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 came | conj |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 opening | det |
| 48 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 perceive | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 much | punct |
| 50 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 52 much | advmod |
| 51 | so | so | ADV | _ | 52 much | advmod |
| 52 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 perceive | conj |
| 53 | as | as | ADP | _ | 56 gate | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 gate | det |
| 55 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 gate | compound |
| 56 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 much | nmod |
| 57 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 discovered | obj |
| 58 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 Ahmed | compound |
| 59 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 discovered | nsubj |
| 60 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 gate | acl:relcl |
| 61 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 seen | punct |
| 62 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 66 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 63 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 66 seen | aux:pass |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 66 seen | mark |
| 65 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 66 seen | aux:pass |
| 66 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 perceive | conj |
| 67 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 68 opened | cc |
| 68 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 66 seen | conj |
| 69 | to | to | ADP | _ | 70 none | case |
| 70 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 68 opened | obl |
| 71 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 72 men | cc |
| 72 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 70 none | conj |
| 73 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 81 agreeable | punct |
| 74 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 81 agreeable | cc |
| 75 | only | only | ADV | _ | 79 presence | advmod |
| 76 | to | to | ADP | _ | 79 presence | case |
| 77 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 79 presence | amod |
| 78 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 79 presence | nmod:poss |
| 79 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 81 agreeable | nsubj |
| 80 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 81 agreeable | cop |
| 81 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | conj |
| 82 | to | to | ADP | _ | 85 Paribanou | case |
| 83 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 85 Paribanou | det |
| 84 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 85 Paribanou | compound |
| 85 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 81 agreeable | obl |
| 86 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | Fairy | the place | thereupon property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | Fairy | hide property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Fairy not said here | the hollow way | directly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to way=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | trace | past | Fairy | the hollow way | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | Fairy | to the farther end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | look | gerund | Fairy not said here | on all sides; about property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | ||||
| 7 | notwithstand | gerund | Fairy's diligence | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | perceive | could | notwithstanding | no opening | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer opening=Stimulus | ||||
| 9 | discover | past | Prince Ahmed | the iron gate | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic | ||||
| 10 | see | past · passive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||||
| 11 | open | participle | none | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to none=Recipient | |||||
| 12 | is | past | such presence | to the Fairy Paribanou; agreeable property | tree rules |
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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