The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 57
The Fairy Paribanou, who had her eyes fixed upon the pretended sick woman all the time that the Prince was talking to her, ordered two of her women who followed her to take her from the two men that held her, and carry her into an apartment of the palace, and take as much care of her as she would herself.
Who acts: Fairy Paribanou, eyes, Prince, women, two men, Fairy · What happens: have, fix, pretend, talk, order, follow · To what, where: eyes, Fairy, two, apartment, much care
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 Paribanou, eyes, Prince, women), 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 Paribanou | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Paribanou | compound |
| 3 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Paribanou | acl:relcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 had | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 woman | amod |
| 13 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fixed | obl:agent |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det:predet |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 woman | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 talking | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 talking | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 talking | aux |
| 22 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 time | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 talking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Paribanou | punct |
| 26 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 ordered | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 women | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 women | nmod:poss |
| 30 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 two | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 followed | nsubj |
| 32 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 women | acl:relcl |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 followed | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 take | mark |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 followed | xcomp |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 men | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 men | det |
| 39 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 40 men | nummod |
| 40 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 take | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 held | nsubj |
| 42 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 men | acl:relcl |
| 43 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 held | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 carry | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 carry | cc |
| 46 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | advcl |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 carry | obj |
| 48 | into | into | ADP | _ | 50 apartment | case |
| 49 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 apartment | det |
| 50 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 carry | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 palace | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 palace | det |
| 53 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 apartment | nmod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 take | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 take | cc |
| 56 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 ordered | parataxis |
| 57 | as | as | ADV | _ | 58 much | advmod |
| 58 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 care | amod |
| 59 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 take | obj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 61 her | case |
| 61 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 59 care | nmod |
| 62 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 64 would | mark |
| 63 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 64 would | nsubj |
| 64 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 take | advcl |
| 65 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 64 would | nsubj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Fairy Paribanou | Fairy's eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | Fairy's eyes not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | talk | past · progressive | the Prince | Fairy | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | order | past | the Fairy Paribanou | two of Fairy's women | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Theme | ||||
| 6 | follow | past | Fairy's women | Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | Fairy's women not said here | Fairy | from the two men | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme from man=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | hold | past | the two men | Fairy | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 9 | carry | infinitive | Fairy's women not said here | Fairy | a apartment of the palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 10 | take | infinitive | much care of Fairy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | |||||
| 11 | care | Fairy | nom care «act 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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