The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 6

The next hall which the Fairy led the Prince into, and where the cloth was laid for the feast, was the last apartment the Prince had not seen, and not in the least inferior to the others.

Who acts: next hall, Prince · What happens: lead, lay, be, not see · To what, where: Prince, cloth, last apartment

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 (next hall, 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 hall	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hall	amod
3	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 apartment	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 led	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fairy	det
6	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 led	nsubj
7	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hall	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 led	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	7 led	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 laid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laid	cc
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 laid	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cloth	det
15	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	nsubj:pass
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 laid	aux:pass
17	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 led	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 feast	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 feast	det
20	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laid	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hall	punct
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 apartment	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 apartment	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apartment	amod
25	apartment	apartment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Prince	det
27	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 seen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 seen	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 seen	advmod
30	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 apartment	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 inferior	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 inferior	cc
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 inferior	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 inferior	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 inferior	det
36	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	37 inferior	advmod
37	inferior	inferior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apartment	parataxis
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 others	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 others	det
40	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 inferior	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 apartment	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lead	past	the next hall	the Prince		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme
2	lay	past · passive		the cloth	for the feast	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for feast=Beneficiary
3	is a	past	the next hall	the last apartment		tree rules
4	not see	past · perfect	the Prince	the last apartment not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apartment=Stimulus

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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