The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 13

At night, when they were at supper together, they all agreed to travel for a year, and to meet at that inn; and that the first that came should wait for the rest; that, as they had all three taken their leave together of the Sultan, they might all return together.

Who acts: Princes, first, three · What happens: be, agree, travel, meet, come, wait · To what, where: supper, that, inn

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 (Princes, first, three), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 night	case
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 agreed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 supper	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 supper	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 supper	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 supper	cop
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 supper	case
8	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 night	conj
9	together	together	ADV	_	8 supper	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 night	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 agreed	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 they	det
13	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 travel	mark
15	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 year	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 year	det
18	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travel	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 meet	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 meet	cc
21	to	to	PART	_	22 meet	mark
22	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 travel	conj
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 inn	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 inn	det
25	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meet	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 wait	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wait	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 first	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 first	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 wait	nsubj
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 first	acl
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wait	aux
34	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 agreed	conj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 rest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rest	det
37	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wait	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 that	punct
39	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 agreed	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
41	as	as	SCONJ	_	43 had	mark
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 agreed	parataxis
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 three	det
45	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 taken	nsubj
46	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 had	xcomp
47	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 leave	nmod:poss
48	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 taken	xcomp
49	together	together	ADV	_	48 leave	advmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 Sultan	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 Sultan	det
52	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 leave	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 return	punct
54	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 return	nsubj
55	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 return	aux
56	all	all	ADV	_	57 return	advmod
57	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 had	conj
58	together	together	ADV	_	57 return	advmod
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Princes = prince		supper		together property	tree rules
2	agree speech: agree	past	Princes = prince	that		night		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	travel not said to happen	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here			year		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	to-infinitive	Princes = prince not said here		that inn			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	wait	should	the first				for the rest	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	Princes = prince					tree rules
8	take	participle	all three					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
9	leave	infinitive	all three not said here				of the Sultan; together property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of sultan=Initial_Location
10	return	might	Princes = prince				all, together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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