The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 25

Here likewise the ushers, at the approach of Schaibar, abandoned their posts, and gave them free admittance.

Who acts: Schaibar · What happens: abandon, give, approach · To what, where: posts, free admittance

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 (Schaibar), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 abandoned	advmod
2	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	4 ushers	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ushers	det
4	ushers	usher	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 approach	punct
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 approach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 approach	det
8	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ushers	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Schaibar	case
10	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 approach	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
12	abandoned	abandon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 posts	nmod:poss
14	posts	post	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 abandoned	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 gave	cc
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 abandoned	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 admittance	amod
20	admittance	admittance	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gave	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 abandoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	abandon	past		ushers's posts		here	vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme post=Source
2	give	past		free admittance	posts = post		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient admittance=Theme
3	approach		Schaibar				nom approach «act 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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