The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 8

Fairy Paribanou sat in this hall on a throne of massive gold, enriched with diamonds, rubies, and pearls of an extraordinary size, and attended on each hand by a great number of beautiful fairies, all richly clothed.

Who acts: Fairy, extraordinary size · What happens: sit, enrich, attend, clothe, pearl · To what, where: pearls, hall, massive gold, all

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 (Fairy, extraordinary size), 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	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
2	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Fairy	appos
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hall	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 hall	det
6	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 throne	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 throne	det
9	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 gold	case
11	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 gold	amod
12	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throne	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 enriched	punct
14	enriched	enrich	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 gold	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 diamonds	case
16	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 enriched	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rubies	punct
18	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 diamonds	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pearls	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pearls	cc
21	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sat	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 size	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 size	det
24	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 size	amod
25	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pearls	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 attended	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 attended	cc
28	attended	attend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sat	parataxis
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 hand	case
30	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 hand	det
31	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attended	obl
32	by	by	ADP	_	35 number	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 number	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 number	amod
35	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attended	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 fairies	case
37	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fairies	amod
38	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 number	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 clothed	punct
40	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 clothed	nsubj:pass
41	richly	richly	ADV	_	42 clothed	advmod
42	clothed	clothe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 attended	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	Fairy	pearls of a extraordinary size	this hall	on a throne of massive gold	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hall=Location
2	enrich	participle		massive gold not said here		with diamonds and rubies	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with diamond=Theme
3	attend	participle				by a great number of beautiful fairies; on each hand	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on hand=Theme
4	clothe	participle · passive		all		richly property	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	pearl		a extraordinary size				nom pearl «possession intransitive»: of=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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