The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 39
The next morning Prince Ali, who traveled only for his pleasure, and had brought nothing but just necessaries along with him, after he had dressed himself, took a walk into that part of the town which they at Schiraz called the bezestein.
Who acts: Ali, next morning, Princes · What happens: travel, bring, dress, take, call, please · To what, where: pleasure, nothing, Ali, walk, part, town · 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: who acts (Ali, next morning, Princes), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | nsubj |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 5 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 traveled | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 traveled | nsubj |
| 8 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ali | acl:relcl |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 pleasure | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 pleasure | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traveled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brought | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 traveled | conj |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 necessaries | cc |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 necessaries | advmod |
| 20 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nothing | conj |
| 21 | along | along | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dressed | punct |
| 25 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 28 dressed | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dressed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dressed | aux |
| 28 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 brought | advcl |
| 29 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 dressed | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 31 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 walk | det |
| 33 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 part | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 part | det |
| 36 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 took | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 town | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 town | det |
| 39 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 part | nmod |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 called | obj |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 called | nsubj |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 Schiraz | case |
| 43 | Schiraz | Schiraz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 they | nmod |
| 44 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 town | acl:relcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 bezestein | det |
| 46 | bezestein | bezestein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 called | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | Ali Prince | Ali's pleasure | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pleasure=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | Ali Prince not said here | nothing | along Ali | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||
| 3 | dress | past · perfect | Ali | Ali | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | the next morning | a walk | that part of the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent walk=Theme into part=Destination | |||
| 5 | call | past | Princes = prince | the town | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme bezestein=Result | ||||
| 6 | please | Ali | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: 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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