The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 58
As soon as the caravan was ready to set out, the Prince joined them, and arrived happily without any accident or trouble, otherwise than the length of the journey and fatigue of traveling, at the place of rendezvous, where he found Prince Houssain, and both waited for Prince Ahmed.
Who acts: caravan, Prince, sir, both · What happens: be, set out, join, arrive, find, wait · To what, where: thereabouts, place, Houssain, traveling
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 (caravan, Prince, sir, both), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 ready | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 ready | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 caravan | det |
| 5 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ready | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 set | mark |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 set | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 joined | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 joined | nsubj |
| 14 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ready | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 joined | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 arrived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 arrived | cc |
| 18 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 joined | conj |
| 19 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 18 arrived | advmod |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 accident | case |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 accident | det |
| 22 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrived | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 trouble | cc |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 accident | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 length | punct |
| 26 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 29 length | advmod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 length | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 length | det |
| 29 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 accident | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 journey | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 journey | det |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 length | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fatigue | cc |
| 34 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 journey | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 traveling | case |
| 36 | traveling | traveling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fatigue | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 place | punct |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 place | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 place | det |
| 40 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arrived | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 rendezvous | case |
| 42 | rendezvous | rendezvous | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 place | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 found | punct |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 46 found | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 found | nsubj |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 rendezvous | acl:relcl |
| 47 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 48 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 found | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 waited | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 waited | cc |
| 51 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 52 waited | nsubj |
| 52 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 arrived | conj |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 55 Ahmed | case |
| 54 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 Ahmed | compound |
| 55 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 waited | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the caravan | ready, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set out | to-infinitive | the caravan not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | join | past | the Prince | thereabouts = thereabout | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | the Prince not said here | the place of rendezvous | without any accident or trouble and the length of the journey and fatigue of traveling; happily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | past | sir | Houssain Prince | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houssain=Topic | ||||
| 6 | wait | past | both | for Prince Ahmed | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | fatigue | traveling | nom fatigue «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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