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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 53

At the same time two of the Prince’s attendants, alighting off their horses, helped her up, and set her behind another, and mounted their horses again, and followed the Prince, who turned back to the iron gate, which was opened by one of his retinue who rode before.

Who acts: Prince, retinue · What happens: alight off, help up, set, mount, follow, turn back · To what, where: horses, action, another, Prince, 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 (Prince, retinue), 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

casedetamodoblflatcasedetnmod:posscasenmodpunctadvclcompound:prtnmod:possobjpunctobjcompound:prtpunctccconjobjcaseoblpunctccparataxisnmod:possobjadvmodpunctccconjdetobjpunctnsubjacl:relcladvmodcasedetcompoundoblpunctnsubj:passaux:passacl:relclcaseoblcasenmod:possnmodnsubjacl:relcladvmodpunctrootAtADPtheDETsameADJtimeNOUNtwoNUMofADPtheDETPrincePROPN’sPARTattendantsNOUN,PUNCTalightingVERBoffADPtheirPRONhorsesNOUN,PUNCThelpedVERBherPRONupADP,PUNCTandCCONJsetVERBherPRONbehindADPanotherDET,PUNCTandCCONJmountedVERBtheirPRONhorsesNOUNagainADV,PUNCTandCCONJfollowedVERBtheDETPrincePROPN,PUNCTwhoPRONturnedVERBbackADVtoADPtheDETironNOUNgateNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXopenedVERBbyADPoneNUMofADPhisPRONretinueNOUNwhoPRONrodeVERBbeforeADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_4 timecase
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 timedet
3samesameADJDegree=Pos4 timeamod
4timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing17 helpedobl
5twotwoNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card4 timeflat
6ofofADP_10 attendantscase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Princedet
8PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing10 attendantsnmod:poss
9’s'sPART_8 Princecase
10attendantsattendantNOUNNumber=Plur5 twonmod
11,,PUNCT_12 alightingpunct
12alightingalightVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 timeadvcl
13offoffADP_12 alightingcompound:prt
14theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 horsesnmod:poss
15horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur12 alightingobj
16,,PUNCT_4 timepunct
17helpedhelpVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
18hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 helpedobj
19upupADP_17 helpedcompound:prt
20,,PUNCT_22 setpunct
21andandCCONJ_22 setcc
22setsetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 helpedconj
23hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 setobj
24behindbehindADP_25 anothercase
25anotheranotherDETPronType=Ind22 setobl
26,,PUNCT_28 mountedpunct
27andandCCONJ_28 mountedcc
28mountedmountVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 helpedparataxis
29theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 horsesnmod:poss
30horseshorseNOUNNumber=Plur28 mountedobj
31againagainADV_28 mountedadvmod
32,,PUNCT_34 followedpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 followedcc
34followedfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 mountedconj
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 Princedet
36PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing34 followedobj
37,,PUNCT_39 turnedpunct
38whowhoPRONPronType=Rel39 turnednsubj
39turnedturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin36 Princeacl:relcl
40backbackADV_39 turnedadvmod
41totoADP_44 gatecase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 gatedet
43ironironNOUNNumber=Sing44 gatecompound
44gategateNOUNNumber=Sing39 turnedobl
45,,PUNCT_48 openedpunct
46whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel48 openednsubj:pass
47wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin48 openedaux:pass
48openedopenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass44 gateacl:relcl
49bybyADP_50 onecase
50oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card48 openedobl
51ofofADP_53 retinuecase
52hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs53 retinuenmod:poss
53retinueretinueNOUNNumber=Sing50 onenmod
54whowhoPRONPronType=Rel55 rodensubj
55roderideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin53 retinueacl:relcl
56beforebeforeADV_55 rodeadvmod
57..PUNCT_17 helpedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1alight offgerundattendants's horsestree rules
2help uppastactiontimevn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary
3setpastactionanothervn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme behind another=Destination
4mountpastattendants's horsesagainvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
5followpastthe Princevn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
6turn backpastthe Princethe iron gatevn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to gate=Destination
7openpast · passivethe iron gateby one of Prince's retinuevn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme by one=Location
8ridepastPrince's retinuebefore propertyvn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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