The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 65
First they sat her down upon a sofa, with her back supported with a cushion of gold brocade, while they made a bed on the same sofa before her, the quilt of which was finely embroidered with silk, the sheets of the finest linen, and the coverlet cloth-of-gold.
Who acts: women · What happens: sit down, support, make, embroider · To what, where: Princess, back, bed, same sofa
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 (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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 sofa | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sofa | det |
| 8 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 back | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 13 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 back | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 cushion | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cushion | det |
| 16 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 supported | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 brocade | case |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 brocade | compound |
| 19 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cushion | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 made | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 made | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | nsubj |
| 23 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 sofa | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sofa | det |
| 28 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sofa | amod |
| 29 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 30 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 made | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 quilt | punct |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 quilt | det |
| 34 | quilt | quilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 made | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 embroidered | obl |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 embroidered | aux:pass |
| 38 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 39 embroidered | advmod |
| 39 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 quilt | acl:relcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 silk | case |
| 41 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 embroidered | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sheets | punct |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 sheets | det |
| 44 | sheets | sheet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 silk | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 linen | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 linen | det |
| 47 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 linen | amod |
| 48 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sheets | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 gold | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 gold | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 cloth | det |
| 52 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 cloth | compound |
| 53 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 gold | nsubj |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 gold | punct |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 gold | case |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 of | punct |
| 57 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | women = woman | Princess | upon a sofa; first property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | support | participle | Princess's back not said here | with a cushion of gold brocade | vn help-72.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent with cushion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | women = woman | a bed | the same sofa | before Princess | the quilt obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product | |
| 4 | embroider | past · passive | of the quilt; with silk and the sheets of the finest linen; finely property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: with silk=Theme |
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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