The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 66

When they had put her into bed (for the old sorceress pretended that her fever was so violent she could not help herself in the least) one of the women went out, and returned soon again with a china dish in her hand, full of a certain liquor, which she presented to the magician, while the other helped her to sit up.

Who acts: women, fever, cloth, certain liquor, other · What happens: put, pretend, be, not help, go out, return · To what, where: cloth, bed, magician

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, fever, cloth, certain liquor), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 bed	case
7	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
8	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 pretended	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 sorceress	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sorceress	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 sorceress	amod
12	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pretended	obl
13	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 violent	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fever	nmod:poss
16	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 violent	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 violent	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 violent	advmod
19	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 help	advcl
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 help	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 pretended	ccomp
24	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 help	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 one	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 least	det
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 one	nmod
28	)	)	PUNCT	_	27 least	punct
29	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 went	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 women	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 women	det
32	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 went	nsubj
33	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 help	parataxis
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 went	compound:prt
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 returned	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 returned	cc
37	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretended	conj
38	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 returned	advmod
39	again	again	ADV	_	37 returned	advmod
40	with	with	ADP	_	43 dish	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 dish	det
42	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dish	compound
43	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 returned	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 hand	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 hand	nmod:poss
46	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dish	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 full	punct
48	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 hand	amod
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 liquor	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 liquor	det
51	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 liquor	amod
52	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 full	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 presented	punct
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	56 presented	nsubj
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 presented	nsubj
56	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 liquor	acl:relcl
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 magician	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 magician	det
59	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 presented	obl
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 helped	punct
61	while	while	SCONJ	_	64 helped	mark
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 other	det
63	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 helped	nsubj
64	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pretended	conj
65	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 helped	obj
66	to	to	PART	_	67 sit	mark
67	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 helped	xcomp
68	up	up	ADP	_	67 sit	compound:prt
69	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect	women = woman		cloth	bed			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal
2	pretend	past						for the old sorceress	tree rules
3	is	past	cloth's fever					violent property	tree rules
4	not help	could	cloth	cloth					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Beneficiary
5	go out	past	the women					in one the least	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	return	past					again	with a china dish in cloth's hand; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	present	past	a certain liquor		the magician				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to magician=Recipient
8	help	past	the other	cloth					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary clause=Theme
9	sit up	to-infinitive	cloth not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP 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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