The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 54

Afterward, as there was nothing in the world so dear to him, after the Sultan, as the Princess Nouronnihar, he wished to see her; and saw her at her toilet laughing, and in a pleasant humor, with her women about her.

Who acts: sir, toilet · What happens: be, wish, see, laugh · To what, where: sir, Nouronnihar, toilet

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 (sir, toilet), 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	Afterward	afterward	ADV	_	11 dear	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Afterward	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 was	expl
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dear	cop
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nothing	nmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 dear	advmod
11	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dear	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Sultan	punct
15	after	after	ADP	_	17 Sultan	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Sultan	det
17	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 dear	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Nouronnihar	punct
19	as	as	ADP	_	22 Nouronnihar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Nouronnihar	det
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Nouronnihar	compound
22	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Sultan	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wished	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wished	nsubj
25	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dear	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wished	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 saw	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 saw	cc
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dear	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 saw	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 toilet	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 toilet	nmod:poss
35	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
36	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 toilet	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 humor	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 humor	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	42 humor	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 humor	det
41	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 humor	amod
42	humor	humor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 saw	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 women	punct
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 women	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 women	nmod:poss
46	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 humor	conj
47	about	about	ADP	_	48 her	case
48	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 women	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past			sir		afterward, dear property	tree rules
2	wish	past	sir					vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	sir not said here	Nouronnihar				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	see	past		Nouronnihar		Nouronnihar's toilet	in a pleasant humor and Nouronnihar's women about Nouronnihar	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	laugh	gerund	Nouronnihar's toilet not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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