The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 62

But as he went forward he saw one of them turned out of the road at some distance, and showed by his head and tail that he did not come to do him any harm, but only to go before him, and that the other stayed behind to follow, he put his sword up again in its scabbard.

Who acts: Prince, one, head, other · What happens: go, see, turn out, show, not come, do · To what, where: road, Prince, sword, scabbard

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, one, head, other), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 saw	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 went	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	advcl
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 saw	nsubj
7	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 turned	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 one	nmod
11	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	parataxis
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 road	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 road	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 distance	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 distance	det
18	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turned	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 showed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 showed	cc
21	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 head	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 head	nmod:poss
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 showed	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tail	cc
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 head	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 come	advmod
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 head	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 do	mark
33	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 come	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 do	obj
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 harm	det
36	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 do	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 go	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 go	cc
39	only	only	ADV	_	41 go	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 showed	conj
42	before	before	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 go	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 stayed	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 stayed	cc
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 stayed	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 other	det
48	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 stayed	nsubj
49	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
50	behind	behind	ADV	_	49 stayed	advmod
51	to	to	PART	_	52 follow	mark
52	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 stayed	advcl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 put	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 put	nsubj
55	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 saw	conj
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 sword	nmod:poss
57	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 put	obj
58	up	up	ADP	_	55 put	compound:prt
59	again	again	ADV	_	55 put	advmod
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 scabbard	case
61	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 scabbard	nmod:poss
62	scabbard	scabbard	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 put	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Prince				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	Prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn out	past	one of Lions	the road			at some distance	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=Theme
4	show	past	Prince not said here				by Prince's head and tail	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not come	past · do-support	Prince's head and tail					tree rules
6	do	to-infinitive	Prince's head and tail not said here	Prince				tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			before Prince		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before he=Location
8	stay	past	the other				behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	follow	to-infinitive	the other not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	put up	past	Prince	Prince's sword	distance's scabbard	again		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in scabbard=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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