The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 5
The two women came again at the time they said they should, and found the magician up and dressed, and sitting upon the sofa.
Who acts: two women, women · What happens: come, say, find up, dress, sit · To what, where: time, magician, sofa · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two women, women), 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 | 3 women | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 women | nummod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 time | acl:relcl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 should | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 magician | det |
| 17 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 found | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dressed | cc |
| 20 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 found | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sitting | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sitting | cc |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 came | advcl |
| 24 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 26 sofa | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sofa | det |
| 26 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sitting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the two women | again; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | women = woman | the time not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find up | past | the magician | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Topic | |||||
| 4 | dress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | sit | gerund | the two women not said here | the sofa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sofa=Location |
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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