The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 34
In short, he looked upon it as an impossible thing for the Princes his younger brothers to meet with anything to be compared with it.
Who acts: piece · What happens: look, meet, compare
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 (piece), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 short | case |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 short | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looked | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 thing | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thing | det |
| 10 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thing | amod |
| 11 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Princes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Princes | det |
| 14 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 thing | nmod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 brothers | amod |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Princes | appos |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 meet | mark |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 looked | advcl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 anything | case |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 meet | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 compared | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 compared | aux:pass |
| 24 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 anything | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 compared | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | piece | upon arrival; as a impossible thing for the Princes; in short | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in short=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | piece not said here | with anything | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with anything=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | compare | to-infinitive · passive | piece not said here | with arrival | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with it=Co-Patient |
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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