The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 2
The eldest of the Princes was called Houssain, the second Ali, the youngest Ahmed, and the Princess, his niece, Nouronnihar.
What happens: call · To what, where: eldest · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 eldest | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Princes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princes | det |
| 5 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eldest | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ali | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Ali | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 Ali | amod |
| 12 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Houssain | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ahmed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ahmed | det |
| 15 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 Ahmed | amod |
| 16 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Houssain | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Princess | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 Princess | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 niece | punct |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 niece | nmod:poss |
| 23 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Princess | appos |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Nouronnihar | punct |
| 25 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Princess | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the eldest | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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