The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 3
The Princess Nouronnihar was the daughter of the younger brother of the Sultan, who died, and left the Princess very young.
Who acts: Princess Nouronnihar, daughter · What happens: be, die, leave · To what, where: daughter, Princess
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 (Princess Nouronnihar, daughter), 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 | 3 Nouronnihar | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 3 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 9 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 daughter | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Sultan | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brother | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 died | nsubj |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 daughter | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 died | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Princess | det |
| 21 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 young | advmod |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 left | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Princess Nouronnihar | the daughter | of the younger brother of the Sultan | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | the daughter | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | the daughter not said here | the Princess | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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