The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 7
At his entrance into it he admired the infinite number of sconces of wax candles perfumed with amber, the multitude of which, instead of being confused, were placed with so just a symmetry as formed an agreeable and pleasant sight.
Who acts: hall · What happens: admire, perfume, be, place, form · To what, where: infinite number, entrance, wax candles, agreeable sight
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 (hall), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 entrance | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 entrance | nmod:poss |
| 3 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admired | obl |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entrance | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 admired | nsubj |
| 7 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 number | det |
| 9 | infinite | infinite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 number | amod |
| 10 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 admired | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 sconces | case |
| 12 | sconces | sconce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 number | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 candles | case |
| 14 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 candles | compound |
| 15 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sconces | nmod |
| 16 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 candles | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 amber | case |
| 18 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 perfumed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 multitude | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 multitude | det |
| 21 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 candles | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 confused | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 confused | punct |
| 25 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 28 confused | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 instead | fixed |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 confused | cop |
| 28 | confused | confused | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 multitude | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 placed | punct |
| 30 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 placed | aux:pass |
| 31 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 admired | conj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 symmetry | case |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 symmetry | advmod |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 symmetry | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 symmetry | det |
| 36 | symmetry | symmetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 placed | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 formed | mark |
| 38 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 placed | advcl |
| 39 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 sight | det |
| 40 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sight | amod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 pleasant | cc |
| 42 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 agreeable | conj |
| 43 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 formed | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | hall | the infinite number of sconces of wax candles and the multitude | hall's entrance into entrance | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | perfume | participle | wax candles and the multitude not said here | with amber | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with amber=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | of the multitude; confused property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | place | past · passive | hall not said here | with a symmetry | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP» | ||||
| 5 | form | participle | hall not said here | a agreeable sight | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sight=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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