The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 65

He approached toward the throne, laid the bottle at the Sultan’s feet, and kissed the rich tapestry which covered his footstool, and then said:

Who acts: Prince, rich tapestry · What happens: approach, lay, kiss, cover, say · To what, where: throne, bottle, feet, rich tapestry, footstool · 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 (Prince, rich tapestry), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 approached	nsubj
2	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 throne	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 throne	det
5	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approached	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	14 feet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Sultan	det
12	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 feet	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 Sultan	case
14	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 kissed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kissed	cc
17	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tapestry	det
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tapestry	amod
20	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 kissed	obj
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 covered	nsubj
22	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tapestry	acl:relcl
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 footstool	nmod:poss
24	footstool	footstool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 covered	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 said	cc
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 said	advmod
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	parataxis
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	approach	past	Prince		the throne		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme toward throne=Initial_Location
2	lay	past	Prince not said here	the bottle	the Sultan's feet		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme at foot=Destination
3	kiss	past	Prince not said here	the rich tapestry			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tapestry=Co-Agent
4	cover	past	the rich tapestry	Prince's footstool			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme footstool=Destination
5	say speech: assert	past				then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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