The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 17
Prince Houssain could not view this division without admiration.
Who acts: Houssain · What happens: not view · To what, where: division
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 (Houssain), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 view | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 view | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 view | advmod |
| 5 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 division | det |
| 7 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 view | obj |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 admiration | case |
| 9 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 view | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 view | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not view | could | Houssain Prince | this division | without admiration | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer division=Stimulus |
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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