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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 4

The Sultan took upon himself the care of his daughter’s education, and brought her up in his palace with the three Princes, proposing to marry her when she arrived at a proper age, and to contract an alliance with some neighboring prince by that means.

Who acts: Sultan, daughter, that, education · What happens: take, bring up, propose, marry, arrive, contract · To what, where: care, daughter, palace, proper age, alliance

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 (Sultan, daughter, that, education), 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

detnsubjcaseobldetobjcasenmod:possnmod:posscasenmodpunctccconjobjcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblcasedetnummodnmodpunctadvclmarkxcompobjadvmodnsubjadvclcasedetamodoblpunctccmarkparataxisdetobjcasedetamodoblmarknsubjadvclpunctrootTheDETSultanPROPNtookVERBuponADPhimselfPRONtheDETcareNOUNofADPhisPRONdaughterNOUN’sPARTeducationNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbroughtVERBherPRONupADPinADPhisPRONpalaceNOUNwithADPtheDETthreeNUMPrincesNOUN,PUNCTproposingVERBtoPARTmarryVERBherPRONwhenADVshePRONarrivedVERBatADPaDETproperADJageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTcontractVERBanDETallianceNOUNwithADPsomeDETneighboringVERBprinceNOUNbySCONJthatPRONmeansVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Sultandet
2SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing3 tooknsubj
3tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4uponuponADP_5 himselfcase
5himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes3 tookobl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 caredet
7carecareNOUNNumber=Sing3 tookobj
8ofofADP_12 educationcase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 daughternmod:poss
10daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Sing12 educationnmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 daughtercase
12educationeducationNOUNNumber=Sing7 carenmod
13,,PUNCT_15 broughtpunct
14andandCCONJ_15 broughtcc
15broughtbringVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 tookconj
16hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 broughtobj
17upupADP_15 broughtcompound:prt
18ininADP_20 palacecase
19hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs20 palacenmod:poss
20palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing15 broughtobl
21withwithADP_24 Princescase
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 Princesdet
23threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card24 Princesnummod
24PrincesprinceNOUNNumber=Plur20 palacenmod
25,,PUNCT_26 proposingpunct
26proposingproposeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 broughtadvcl
27totoPART_28 marrymark
28marrymarryVERBVerbForm=Inf26 proposingxcomp
29hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 marryobj
30whenwhenADVPronType=Int32 arrivedadvmod
31sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 arrivednsubj
32arrivedarriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 marryadvcl
33atatADP_36 agecase
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 agedet
35properproperADJDegree=Pos36 ageamod
36ageageNOUNNumber=Sing32 arrivedobl
37,,PUNCT_40 contractpunct
38andandCCONJ_40 contractcc
39totoPART_40 contractmark
40contractcontractVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin3 tookparataxis
41anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 alliancedet
42allianceallianceNOUNNumber=Sing40 contractobj
43withwithADP_46 princecase
44somesomeDETPronType=Ind46 princedet
45neighboringneighborVERBVerbForm=Ger46 princeamod
46princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing40 contractobl
47bybySCONJ_49 meansmark
48thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem49 meansnsubj
49meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 contractadvcl
50..PUNCT_3 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takepastthe Sultanthe care of sultan's daughter's educationupon sultanvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
2bring uppastthe Sultan not said heredaughtersultan's palace with the three Princesvn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3proposegerundthe Sultan not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4marryto-infinitivethe Sultan not said heredaughtervn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
5arrivepastdaughterat a proper agevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6contractto-infinitivea alliancewith some neighboring princevn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent alliance=Patient with prince=Instrument
7neighborgerundvn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8meanpresentthatvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
9caresultan's daughter's educationnom care «act intransitive»: of=agent
10educatesultan's daughternom education «act 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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