The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 6

He was very much concerned; the difficulty he foresaw was to make them agree, and that the two youngest should consent to yield her up to their elder brother.

Who acts: sultan, difficulty, two · What happens: be, foresee, agree, consent, yield up · To what, where: difficulty, daughter, elder brother

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, difficulty, two), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 concerned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 concerned	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 concerned	advmod
5	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 make	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 difficulty	det
8	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 make	nsubj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 foresaw	nsubj
10	foresaw	foresee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 difficulty	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 make	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 concerned	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 make	obj
15	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 consent	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 consent	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 consent	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 two	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 consent	nsubj
21	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 two	nmod
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 consent	aux
23	consent	consent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 make	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 yield	mark
25	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 consent	xcomp
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 yield	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 yield	compound:prt
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 brother	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 brother	nmod:poss
30	elder	elder	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 brother	amod
31	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 yield	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 concerned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	sultan			concerned property	tree rules
2	foresee	past	sultan	the difficulty not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Theme
3	is	past	the difficulty			make property	tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	infinitive	the difficulty not said here				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	consent	should	the two youngest				vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	yield up	to-infinitive	the two youngest not said here	daughter	Princes's elder brother		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent she=Theme to brother=Goal

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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