The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 7

The two women, who were fairies as well as their mistress, after they had told the magician how glad they were that she was cured so soon, walked before her, and conducted her through several apartments, all more noble than that wherein she lay, into a large hall, the most richly and magnificently furnished of all the palace.

Who acts: two women, magician · What happens: be, tell, cure, walk, conduct, lie · To what, where: fairies, women, magician, several apartments, large hall · 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, magician), 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	31 walked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fairies	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fairies	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fairies	cop
7	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 women	conj
8	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	7 fairies	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 as	fixed
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 mistress	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mistress	nmod:poss
12	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 as	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 women	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 magician	det
19	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 glad	advmod
21	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 told	ccomp
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cured	nsubj:pass
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cured	aux:pass
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 cured	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cured	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cured	aux:pass
27	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 glad	conj
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 soon	advmod
29	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 cured	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 women	punct
31	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	before	before	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 walked	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 conducted	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 conducted	cc
36	conducted	conduct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 walked	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 conducted	obj
38	through	through	ADP	_	40 apartments	case
39	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 apartments	amod
40	apartments	apartment	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 conducted	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 noble	punct
42	all	all	ADV	_	44 noble	advmod
43	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	44 noble	advmod
44	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 walked	parataxis
45	than	than	ADP	_	46 that	case
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 noble	obl
47	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	49 lay	advmod
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 lay	nsubj
49	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 noble	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 hall	punct
51	into	into	ADP	_	54 hall	case
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 hall	det
53	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hall	amod
54	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 lay	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 furnished	punct
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 furnished	det
57	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	58 richly	advmod
58	richly	richly	ADV	_	61 furnished	advmod
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 magnificently	cc
60	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	_	61 furnished	advmod
61	furnished	furnish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 hall	acl:relcl
62	of	of	ADP	_	65 palace	case
63	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	65 palace	det:predet
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 palace	det
65	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 furnished	obl
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the two women and fairies	fairies					tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive	the two women and fairies not said here	women = woman	the magician				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient magician=Topic
3	cure	past · passive		women = woman				soon property	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source
4	walk	past	the two women and fairies				before magician		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Trajectory
5	conduct	past	the two women and fairies not said here	magician		several apartments			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme through apartment=Destination
6	lie	past	magician	a large hall				wherein property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hall=Theme
7	furnish	participle		a large hall not said here				of all palace; magnificently, richly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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