The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 1

The magician, to dissemble the better, took it after a great deal of entreaty; but at last she took the china dish, and, holding back her head, swallowed down the liquor.

Who acts: magician, head · What happens: dissemble, take, hold back, swallow down, deal · To what, where: better, it, china dish, last, liquor, entreaty

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, head), 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	2 magician	det
2	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dissemble	punct
4	to	to	PART	_	5 dissemble	mark
5	dissemble	dissemble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 magician	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 better	det
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 dissemble	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 magician	punct
9	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 took	obj
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 deal	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 deal	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deal	amod
14	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 took	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 entreaty	case
16	entreaty	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deal	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 took	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 last	case
20	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 took	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	nsubj
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 took	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dish	det
24	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dish	compound
25	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 took	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 swallowed	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 swallowed	cc
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 and	punct
29	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 swallowed	csubj:pass
30	back	back	ADV	_	29 holding	advmod
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 head	nmod:poss
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swallowed	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 swallowed	punct
34	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 took	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	37 liquor	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 liquor	det
37	liquor	liquor	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swallowed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	dissemble	to-infinitive	the magician not said here	the better			tree rules
2	take	past	the magician	it		after a great deal of entreaty	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	take	past	magician	the china dish	last		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent dish=Theme at last=Asset
4	hold back	gerund					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swallow down	participle	magician's head	the liquor			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient
6	deal			entreaty			nom deal «act 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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