The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 64
A great many officers came to attend the Prince while he dismounted his horse, and afterward conducted him into the Sultan’s apartment, who was at that time surrounded with his favorites.
Who acts: great many officers, Prince, apartment · What happens: come, attend, dismount, conduct, be, surround · To what, where: Prince, horse, apartment, time
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 (great many officers, Prince, apartment), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 officers | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 officers | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 officers | amod |
| 4 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 attend | mark |
| 7 | attend | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 attend | obj |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 dismounted | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 dismounted | nsubj |
| 12 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dismounted | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 conducted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 conducted | cc |
| 17 | afterward | afterward | ADV | _ | 18 conducted | advmod |
| 18 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 conducted | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 apartment | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Sultan | case |
| 24 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 conducted | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 time | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 time | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 time | cop |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 time | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 time | det |
| 30 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 apartment | appos |
| 31 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 time | acl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 favorites | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 favorites | nmod:poss |
| 34 | favorites | favorite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a great many officers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | attend | to-infinitive | a great many officers not said here | the Prince | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prince=Goal | ||||
| 3 | dismount | past | Prince | Prince's horse | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | conduct | past | a great many officers not said here | Prince | the Sultan's apartment | afterward property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into apartment=Destination | ||
| 5 | is | past | the Sultan's apartment | at that time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | surround | participle | that time not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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