The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 61
When he had gone a little distance from the castle gates he turned him about, and, perceiving two of the lions coming after him, he drew his sabre and prepared himself for defense.
Who acts: Prince, two lions · What happens: go, turn, perceive, come, draw, prepare · To what, where: little distance, castle gates, Fountain, two lions, sabre, Prince
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 (Prince, two lions), 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 | 4 gone | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 distance | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 distance | amod |
| 7 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 gates | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gates | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gates | compound |
| 11 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 distance | nmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gates | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drew | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perceiving | punct |
| 19 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 drew | ccomp |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 lions | nummod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lions | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lions | det |
| 23 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 perceiving | obj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 lions | acl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 coming | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 perceiving | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | nsubj |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | parataxis |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sabre | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 prepared | cc |
| 33 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 drew | conj |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 prepared | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 defense | case |
| 36 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 prepared | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | Prince | a little distance | the castle gates | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | past | Prince | Fountain | about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | perceive | gerund | Prince not said here | the two lions | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lion=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come | gerund | the two lions not said here | after Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | Prince | Prince's sabre | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | prepare | past | Prince not said here | Prince | for defense | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent himself=Product for defense=Beneficiary |
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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