The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 43

When the tent was set up in the great plain, which we have before mentioned, he found it large enough to shelter an army twice as large as he could bring into the field.

Who acts: father · What happens: set up, mention, find, shelter, bring · To what, where: tent, great plain, plain, army, field

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tent	det
3	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	aux:pass
5	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 set	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 plain	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plain	amod
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 mentioned	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 mentioned	nsubj:pass
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 mentioned	nsubj
14	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 mentioned	aux
15	before	before	ADV	_	16 mentioned	advmod
16	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 plain	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 set	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	obj
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 found	xcomp
22	enough	enough	ADV	_	21 large	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 shelter	mark
24	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 large	advcl
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 army	det
26	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 shelter	obj
27	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 large	advmod
28	as	as	ADV	_	29 large	advmod
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shelter	advcl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 bring	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bring	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bring	aux
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 large	advcl
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 field	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 field	det
36	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bring	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set up	past · passive		the tent	the great plain		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in plain=Destination
2	mention speech: other	present · perfect · passive		the great plain		before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	find	past	father	plain		large property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
4	shelter	to-infinitive	father not said here	a army			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient
5	bring	could	father		the field		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into field=Destination

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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