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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 37

Prince Ali, Prince Houssain’s second brother, who designed to travel into Persia, took the road, having three days after he parted with his brothers joined a caravan, and after four days’ travel arrived at Schiraz, which was the capital of the kingdom of Persia.

Who acts: second brother, Ali, brothers, travel, Schiraz, four days · What happens: design, travel, take, have, part, join · To what, where: Persia, road, caravan, Schiraz, capital

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 (second brother, Ali, brothers, travel), 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

nmod:descnsubjpunctnmod:descnmod:posscaseamodappospunctnsubjacl:relclmarkxcompcaseoblpunctdetobjpunctadvclnummodobjmarknsubjadvclmarknmod:possnsubjccompdetobjpunctccmarknummodnmod:posscasensubjconjcaseoblpunctnsubjcopdetapposcasedetnmodcasenmodpunctrootPrincePROPNAliPROPN,PUNCTPrincePROPNHoussainPROPN’sPARTsecondADJbrotherNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONdesignedVERBtoPARTtravelVERBintoADPPersiaPROPN,PUNCTtookVERBtheDETroadNOUN,PUNCThavingVERBthreeNUMdaysNOUNafterSCONJhePRONpartedVERBwithSCONJhisPRONbrothersNOUNjoinedVERBaDETcaravanNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJafterSCONJfourNUMdaysNOUN’PARTtravelNOUNarrivedVERBatADPSchirazPROPN,PUNCTwhichPRONwasAUXtheDETcapitalNOUNofADPtheDETkingdomNOUNofADPPersiaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing2 Alinmod:desc
2AliAliPROPNNumber=Sing17 tooknsubj
3,,PUNCT_8 brotherpunct
4PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing5 Houssainnmod:desc
5HoussainHoussainPROPNNumber=Sing8 brothernmod:poss
6’s'sPART_5 Houssaincase
7secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord8 brotheramod
8brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing2 Aliappos
9,,PUNCT_11 designedpunct
10whowhoPRONPronType=Rel11 designednsubj
11designeddesignVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 brotheracl:relcl
12totoPART_13 travelmark
13traveltravelVERBVerbForm=Inf11 designedxcomp
14intointoADP_15 Persiacase
15PersiaPersiaPROPNNumber=Sing13 travelobl
16,,PUNCT_2 Alipunct
17tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 roaddet
19roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing17 tookobj
20,,PUNCT_21 havingpunct
21havinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part17 tookadvcl
22threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card23 daysnummod
23daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur21 havingobj
24afterafterSCONJ_26 partedmark
25hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 partednsubj
26partedpartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 havingadvcl
27withwithSCONJ_30 joinedmark
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 brothersnmod:poss
29brothersbrotherNOUNNumber=Plur30 joinednsubj
30joinedjoinVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 partedccomp
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 caravandet
32caravancaravanNOUNNumber=Sing30 joinedobj
33,,PUNCT_40 arrivedpunct
34andandCCONJ_40 arrivedcc
35afterafterSCONJ_40 arrivedmark
36fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card37 daysnummod
37daysdayNOUNNumber=Plur39 travelnmod:poss
38’'sPART_37 dayscase
39traveltravelNOUNNumber=Sing40 arrivednsubj
40arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 tookconj
41atatADP_42 Schirazcase
42SchirazSchirazPROPNNumber=Sing40 arrivedobl
43,,PUNCT_47 capitalpunct
44whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel47 capitalnsubj
45wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin47 capitalcop
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 capitaldet
47capitalcapitalNOUNNumber=Sing42 Schirazappos
48ofofADP_50 kingdomcase
49thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art50 kingdomdet
50kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing47 capitalnmod
51ofofADP_52 Persiacase
52PersiaPersiaPROPNNumber=Sing50 kingdomnmod
53..PUNCT_17 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1designpastHoussain Prince's second brothertree rules
2travelto-infinitiveHoussain Prince's second brother not said herePersiavn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into persia=Destination
3takepastAli Princethe roadvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
4havegerundAli Prince not said heredayvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5partpastAlitree rules
6joinpastHoussain's brothersa caravanvn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caravan=Patient
7arrivepastfour days's travelSchirazvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8is apastSchirazthe capitalof the kingdom of Persiatree rules
9travelfour daysnom travel «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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