The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 32

Nourgiham returned presently with the pavilion, which she could not only hold in her hand, but in the palm of her hand when she shut her fingers, and presented it to her mistress, who gave it to Prince Ahmed to look at.

Who acts: Nourgiham, pavilion, mistress · What happens: return, not hold, shut, present, give, look · To what, where: hand, fingers, palm, mistress, Prince Ahmed

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 (Nourgiham, pavilion, mistress), 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	Nourgiham	Nourgiham	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 returned	nsubj
2	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	presently	presently	ADV	_	2 returned	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pavilion	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pavilion	det
6	pavilion	pavilion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 returned	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hold	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 hold	nsubj
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hold	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hold	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hold	advmod
12	only	only	ADV	_	13 hold	advmod
13	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pavilion	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hand	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hand	nmod:poss
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hold	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 shut	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 shut	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 palm	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 palm	det
21	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shut	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 hand	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 hand	nmod:poss
24	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 palm	nmod
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 shut	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 shut	nsubj
27	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 returned	parataxis
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 fingers	nmod:poss
29	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 shut	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 presented	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 presented	cc
32	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 shut	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 presented	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 mistress	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 mistress	nmod:poss
36	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 presented	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 gave	punct
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 gave	nsubj
39	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 mistress	acl:relcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 gave	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 Ahmed	case
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 Ahmed	compound
43	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 gave	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 look	mark
45	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 gave	advcl
46	at	at	ADP	_	45 look	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	past	Nourgiham				with the pavilion; presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not hold	could	the pavilion			Nourgiham's hand		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location
3	shut	past	Nourgiham	Nourgiham's fingers		the palm of Nourgiham's hand		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
4	present	past	Nourgiham not said here	hand	Nourgiham's mistress			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mistress=Recipient
5	give	past	Nourgiham's mistress	hand	Prince Ahmed			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ahmed=Recipient
6	look	to-infinitive	Nourgiham's mistress not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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