The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 57

Prince Ali was overjoyed at his bargain, and persuaded himself that, as his brothers would not be able to meet with anything so rare and admirable, the Princess Nouronnihar would be the recompense of his fatigue and trouble; that he thought of nothing but visiting the Court of Persia incognito, and seeing whatever was curious in Schiraz and thereabouts, till the caravan with which he came returned back to the Indies.

Who acts: brothers, Princess Nouronnihar, sir, whatever · What happens: overjoy, persuade, not be, meet, be, think · To what, where: Ali, bargain, sir, recompense, Court, Schiraz · 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 (brothers, Princess Nouronnihar, sir, whatever), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ali	nmod:desc
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 overjoyed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overjoyed	aux:pass
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bargain	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bargain	nmod:poss
7	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 overjoyed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 persuaded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 persuaded	cc
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overjoyed	conj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 persuaded	obj
12	that	that	ADV	_	10 persuaded	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 able	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 able	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 brothers	nmod:poss
16	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 able	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 able	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 able	advmod
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	cop
20	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 persuaded	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 meet	mark
22	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 able	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 anything	case
24	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 meet	obl
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 rare	advmod
26	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 anything	amod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 admirable	cc
28	admirable	admirable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 rare	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 recompense	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Nouronnihar	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Nouronnihar	compound
32	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 recompense	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 recompense	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 recompense	cop
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 recompense	det
36	recompense	recompense	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meet	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 fatigue	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 fatigue	nmod:poss
39	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 recompense	nmod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 trouble	cc
41	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fatigue	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 thought	punct
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 thought	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 thought	nsubj
45	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 overjoyed	parataxis
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 nothing	case
47	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	45 thought	obl
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 visiting	cc
49	visiting	visit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 nothing	conj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 Court	det
51	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 visiting	obj
52	of	of	ADP	_	54 incognito	case
53	Persia	Persia	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 incognito	compound
54	incognito	incognito	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Court	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 seeing	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 seeing	cc
57	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 thought	advcl
58	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 curious	nsubj
59	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 curious	cop
60	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 seeing	ccomp
61	in	in	ADP	_	62 Schiraz	case
62	Schiraz	Schiraz	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 curious	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 thereabouts	cc
64	thereabouts	thereabout	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 Schiraz	conj
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 caravan	punct
66	till	till	ADP	_	68 caravan	case
67	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	68 caravan	det
68	caravan	caravan	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 seeing	obl
69	with	with	ADP	_	70 which	case
70	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	73 returned	obl
71	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	73 returned	nsubj
72	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	73 returned	aux:pass
73	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	68 caravan	acl:relcl
74	back	back	ADV	_	73 returned	advmod
75	to	to	ADP	_	77 Indies	case
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	77 Indies	det
77	Indies	indy	NOUN	Number=Plur	74 back	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 overjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overjoy	past · passive		Ali Prince	sir's bargain			tree rules
2	persuade	past		sir			that property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	not is	would	sir's brothers				able property	tree rules
4	meet	to-infinitive	sir's brothers not said here				with anything	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with anything=Co-Agent
5	is a	would	the Princess Nouronnihar	the recompense			of sir's fatigue and trouble	tree rules
6	think speech: other	past	sir				of nothing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	visit	gerund	sir not said here	the Court of Persia incognito				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Co-Agent
8	see	gerund	sir not said here			till the caravan		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	past	whatever		Schiraz and thereabouts		curious property	tree rules
10	return back	past · passive		sir			with the caravan	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
11	bargain		sir					nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
12	fatigue		sir					nom fatigue «state 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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