The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 53
The crier presently showed him, and he looked through, wishing at the same time to see the Sultan his father, whom he immediately beheld in perfect health, set on his throne, in the midst of his council.
Who acts: crier, sir · What happens: show, look through, wish, see, behold, set · To what, where: sir, Sultan, father, perfect health, throne
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 (crier, sir), 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 | 2 crier | det |
| 2 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 showed | advmod |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 showed | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 looked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | conj |
| 10 | through | through | ADV | _ | 9 looked | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wishing | punct |
| 12 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 looked | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 time | amod |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wishing | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wishing | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sultan | det |
| 20 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beheld | punct |
| 24 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 beheld | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 beheld | advmod |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 father | acl:relcl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 health | case |
| 29 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 health | amod |
| 30 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beheld | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 set | punct |
| 32 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 health | acl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 throne | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 throne | nmod:poss |
| 35 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 midst | punct |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 midst | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 midst | det |
| 39 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 set | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 council | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 council | nmod:poss |
| 42 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 midst | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | the crier | sir | presently property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | look through | past | sir | through property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wish | gerund | sir not said here | time | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | sir not said here | the Sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | behold | participle | sir | sir's father | perfect health | immediately property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | set | participle | perfect health not said here | sir's throne | in the midst of sir's council | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on throne=Destination |
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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