The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 5
But when he perceived that the three Princes, his sons, loved her passionately, he thought more seriously on that affair.
Who acts: sultan, three Princes · What happens: perceive, love, think · To what, where: daughter
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, three 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 perceived | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 perceived | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 perceived | nsubj |
| 4 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 loved | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princes | det |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Princes | nummod |
| 8 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sons | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Princes | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Princes | punct |
| 13 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | advcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loved | obj |
| 15 | passionately | passionately | ADV | _ | 13 loved | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perceived | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 seriously | advmod |
| 20 | seriously | seriously | ADV | _ | 18 thought | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 affair | case |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 affair | det |
| 23 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | sultan | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | love | past | the three Princes | daughter | passionately property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | sultan | on that affair; seriously property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on affair=Topic |
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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