The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 9

Several choruses of beautiful women richly dressed, and whose voices were ravishing, began a concert, accompanied with all sorts of the most harmonious instruments; and when they were set down at table the Fairy Paribanou took care to help Prince Ahmed to the most delicate meats, which she named as she invited him to eat of them, and which the Prince found to be so exquisitely nice that he commended them with exaggeration, and said that the entertainment far surpassed those of man.

Who acts: voices, Several choruses, Fairy Paribanou, cloth, Ahmed, Prince · What happens: dress, ravish, begin, accompany, set down, take · To what, where: beautiful women, concert, voices, table, care, Prince Ahmed · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (voices, Several choruses, Fairy Paribanou, cloth), 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	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 choruses	amod
2	choruses	chorus	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 began	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 women	case
4	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 women	amod
5	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 choruses	nmod
6	richly	richly	ADV	_	7 dressed	advmod
7	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 women	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ravishing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ravishing	cc
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 voices	nmod:poss
11	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ravishing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ravishing	aux
13	ravishing	ravish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 choruses	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 choruses	punct
15	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 concert	det
17	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 began	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 accompanied	punct
19	accompanied	accompany	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 concert	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 sorts	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 sorts	det
22	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 accompanied	obl:agent
23	of	of	ADP	_	27 instruments	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 instruments	det
25	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	26 harmonious	advmod
26	harmonious	harmonious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 instruments	amod
27	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sorts	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 set	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 set	aux:pass
33	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 began	conj
34	down	down	ADP	_	33 set	compound:prt
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 table	case
36	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Paribanou	det
38	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Paribanou	compound
39	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 took	nsubj
40	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 set	parataxis
41	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 took	obj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 help	mark
43	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 took	advcl
44	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 Ahmed	compound
45	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 help	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	50 meats	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 meats	det
48	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	49 delicate	advmod
49	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 meats	amod
50	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 help	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 named	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 named	obj
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 named	nsubj
54	named	name	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 meats	parataxis
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 invited	mark
56	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 invited	nsubj
57	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 named	advcl
58	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 invited	obj
59	to	to	PART	_	60 eat	mark
60	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 invited	xcomp
61	of	of	ADP	_	62 them	case
62	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 eat	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 found	punct
64	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 found	cc
65	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	68 found	obj
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 Prince	det
67	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	68 found	nsubj
68	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 took	conj
69	to	to	PART	_	73 nice	mark
70	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	73 nice	cop
71	so	so	ADV	_	73 nice	advmod
72	exquisitely	exquisitely	ADV	_	73 nice	advmod
73	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	68 found	ccomp
74	that	that	SCONJ	_	76 commended	mark
75	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 commended	nsubj
76	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 nice	advcl
77	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	76 commended	obj
78	with	with	ADP	_	79 exaggeration	case
79	exaggeration	exaggeration	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 commended	obl
80	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 said	punct
81	and	and	CCONJ	_	82 said	cc
82	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 took	conj
83	that	that	SCONJ	_	87 surpassed	mark
84	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	85 entertainment	det
85	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 surpassed	nsubj
86	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	87 surpassed	advmod
87	surpassed	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 said	ccomp
88	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	87 surpassed	obj
89	of	of	ADP	_	90 man	case
90	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	88 those	nmod
91	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	dress	participle		beautiful women not said here			richly property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ravish	past · progressive	voices					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	begin	past	Several choruses of beautiful women	a concert				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent concert=Eventuality
4	accompany	participle		a concert not said here				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	set down	past · passive		voices = voice		table		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at table=Destination
6	take	past	the Fairy Paribanou	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
7	help	to-infinitive	the Fairy Paribanou not said here		Prince Ahmed		to the delicate meats	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Beneficiary
8	name	past	cloth	the delicate meats				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
9	invite	past	cloth	Ahmed				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
10	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	Ahmed not said here				of sorts = sort	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of they=Source
11	find	past	the Prince					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
12	is	to-infinitive					exquisitely, nice property	tree rules
13	commend	past	Prince	voices = voice			with exaggeration	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
14	say speech: assert	past	the Fairy Paribanou not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
15	surpass	past	the entertainment	those			far property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme
16	chorus			beautiful women				nom chorus «event transitive»: of=patient
17	sort			the harmonious instruments				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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