The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 42

He took the tent and after he had admired its smallness his amazement was so great that he could not recover himself.

Who acts: father, amazement · What happens: take, admire, be, not recover, amaze · To what, where: tent, smallness, father

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 (father, amazement), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tent	det
4	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 admired	cc
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 admired	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 admired	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 admired	aux
9	admired	admire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 took	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 smallness	nmod:poss
11	smallness	smallness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 admired	obj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 amazement	nmod:poss
13	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 great	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 great	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 great	advmod
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 admired	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 recover	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 recover	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 recover	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 recover	advmod
21	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 great	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 recover	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	take	past	father	the tent		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme
2	admire	past · perfect	father	diligence's smallness		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smallness=Stimulus
3	is	past	father's amazement		great property	tree rules
4	not recover	could	father	father		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	amaze		father			nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=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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