The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 10
The Fairy ordered a gold chafing-dish to be set with a fire in it under the porch of her palace, with a box of the same metal, which was a present to her, out of which taking a perfume, and throwing it into the fire, there arose a thick cloud of smoke.
Who acts: Fairy, gold, same metal · What happens: order, chafe, set, be, take, throw · To what, where: gold, dish, porch, present, Fairy, perfume
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, gold, same metal), 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 | 2 Fairy | det |
| 2 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | chafing | chafe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gold | acl |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dish | punct |
| 8 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chafing | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 set | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | aux:pass |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 dish | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fire | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fire | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fire | nmod |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 porch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 porch | det |
| 19 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 palace | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 porch | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 box | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 box | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 box | det |
| 26 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chafing | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 metal | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 metal | det |
| 29 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 metal | amod |
| 30 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 box | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 present | punct |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 present | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 present | cop |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 present | det |
| 35 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 metal | nmod |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 her | case |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 present | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 taking | punct |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 taking | mark |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 which | case |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 taking | obl |
| 42 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 perfume | det |
| 44 | perfume | perfume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 taking | obj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 throwing | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 throwing | cc |
| 47 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 taking | conj |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 throwing | obj |
| 49 | into | into | ADP | _ | 51 fire | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fire | det |
| 51 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 throwing | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 arose | punct |
| 53 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 54 arose | expl |
| 54 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 throwing | conj |
| 55 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 cloud | det |
| 56 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 cloud | amod |
| 57 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 arose | obj |
| 58 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 smoke | case |
| 59 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 cloud | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Fairy | a gold | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | chafe | gerund | a gold not said here | dish | with a box of the same metal | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent dish=Theme with box=Instrument | |||
| 3 | set | to-infinitive · passive | a gold not said here | dish not said here | the porch of Fairy's palace | with a fire in fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: under porch=Destination | ||
| 4 | is a | past | the same metal | a present | Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 5 | take | gerund | a perfume | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent perfume=Theme of which=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | throw | gerund | perfume | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result | ||||
| 7 | arise | past | a thick cloud of smoke | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | ||||
| 8 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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