The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 10
The Sultan paid them the money he promised them; and that very day they gave orders for the preparations for their travels, and took their leave of the Sultan, that they might be the more ready to go the next morning.
Who acts: Sultan, Princes · What happens: pay, promise, give, travel, take, be · To what, where: Princes, money, orders, leave
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, Princes), 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 Sultan | det |
| 2 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | nsubj |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paid | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 money | det |
| 6 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paid | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promised | nsubj |
| 8 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 money | acl:relcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 promised | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 day | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 day | advmod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paid | parataxis |
| 17 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 preparations | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 preparations | det |
| 20 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | obj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 travels | mark |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 travels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 preparations | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gave | conj |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 leave | nmod:poss |
| 28 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Sultan | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Sultan | det |
| 31 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 leave | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ready | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 ready | mark |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ready | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 ready | aux |
| 36 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ready | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 more | det |
| 38 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 ready | advmod |
| 39 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 took | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ready | xcomp |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 morning | det |
| 43 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 morning | amod |
| 44 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 go | obl:unmarked |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the Sultan | Princes = prince | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient money=Asset | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | sultan | the money not said here | Princes = prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | Princes = prince | orders | day | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent order=Recipient preparation=Theme | |||
| 4 | travel | present | Princes = prince not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | past | Princes = prince not said here | Princes's leave of the Sultan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | might | Princes = prince | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | Princes = prince not said here | morning | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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