The Violet Fairy Book, Virgilius the Sorcerer, sentence 98

Now about this time there came to be noised abroad the fame of the daughter of the sultan who ruled over the province of Babylon, and indeed she was said to be the most beautiful princess in the world.

Who acts: sultan · What happens: come, noise, rule, say, be · To what, where: fame, province, Babylon, beautiful princess, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Virgilius the Sorcerer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	about	about	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 time	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	9 noised	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 noised	aux:pass
9	noised	noise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	advcl
10	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	9 noised	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fame	det
12	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noised	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 daughter	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 daughter	det
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fame	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sultan	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sultan	det
18	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 daughter	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 ruled	nsubj
20	ruled	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sultan	acl:relcl
21	over	over	ADP	_	23 province	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 province	det
23	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ruled	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Babylon	case
25	Babylon	Babylon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 province	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	31 said	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 said	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux:pass
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 came	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	37 princess	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 princess	cop
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 princess	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 beautiful	advmod
36	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 princess	amod
37	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	ccomp
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 world	det
40	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 princess	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				now; time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	noise	to-infinitive · passive		the fame of the daughter of the sultan			abroad property	tree rules
3	rule	past	the sultan		the province of Babylon			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past · passive		Babylon			indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	is a	to-infinitive		the beautiful princess	the world			tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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