The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 49

The artful sorceress looked at the Prince in a pitiful manner, without ever lifting up her head, and answered in broken words and sighs, as if she could hardly fetch her breath, that she was going to the capital city, but on the way thither she was taken with so violent a fever that her strength failed her, and she was forced to lie down where he saw her, far from any habitation, and without any hopes of assistance.

Who acts: artful sorceress, sorceress, strength, Prince, assistance · What happens: look, lift up, answer, fetch, go, take · To what, where: pitiful manner, head, broken words, breath, capital city, sorceress

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 (artful sorceress, sorceress, strength, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sorceress	det
2	artful	artful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sorceress	amod
3	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	nsubj
4	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 Prince	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Prince	det
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 manner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 manner	det
10	pitiful	pitiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 manner	amod
11	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lifting	punct
13	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 lifting	mark
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 lifting	advmod
15	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 looked	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 lifting	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 head	nmod:poss
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lifting	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 answered	cc
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 looked	parataxis
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 words	case
23	broken	broken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 words	amod
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 answered	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sighs	cc
26	sighs	sigh	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 words	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fetch	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 fetch	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 fetch	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fetch	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 fetch	aux
32	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	33 fetch	advmod
33	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 answered	parataxis
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 breath	nmod:poss
35	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fetch	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 going	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 going	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 going	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 going	aux
40	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 fetch	conj
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 city	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 city	det
43	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 city	compound
44	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 going	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 taken	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 taken	cc
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 way	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 way	det
49	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 taken	obl
50	thither	thither	ADV	_	49 way	advmod
51	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 taken	nsubj
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 taken	aux:pass
53	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	conj
54	with	with	ADP	_	56 violent	case
55	so	so	ADV	_	56 violent	advmod
56	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 taken	obl
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 fever	det
58	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 violent	nsubj
59	that	that	SCONJ	_	62 failed	mark
60	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 strength	nmod:poss
61	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 failed	nsubj
62	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 violent	advcl
63	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 failed	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 forced	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 forced	cc
66	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	68 forced	nsubj:pass
67	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	68 forced	aux:pass
68	forced	force	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 looked	parataxis
69	to	to	PART	_	70 lie	mark
70	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 forced	xcomp
71	down	down	ADP	_	70 lie	compound:prt
72	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	74 saw	advmod
73	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 saw	nsubj
74	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 lie	advcl
75	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	74 saw	obj
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	80 habitation	punct
77	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	80 habitation	advmod
78	from	from	ADP	_	80 habitation	case
79	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	80 habitation	det
80	habitation	habitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 forced	obl
81	,	,	PUNCT	_	85 hopes	punct
82	and	and	CCONJ	_	85 hopes	cc
83	without	without	ADP	_	85 hopes	case
84	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	85 hopes	det
85	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	68 forced	obl
86	of	of	ADP	_	87 assistance	case
87	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	85 hopes	nmod
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the artful sorceress		a pitiful manner		at the Prince	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme
2	lift up	gerund	the artful sorceress not said here	sorceress's head		ever		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past			broken words and sighs			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fetch a condition, not said to happen	could	sorceress	sorceress's breath			hardly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
5	go	past · progressive	sorceress		the capital city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location
6	take	past · passive		sorceress	the way		with violent	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on way=Destination
7	fail	past	fever's strength	fever				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
8	force	past · passive		strength	any habitation		without any hopes of assistance	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
9	lie down	to-infinitive	strength not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	see	past	Prince	fever				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
11	hope		assistance					nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=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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