The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 7

As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together, and said to them: “Children, since for your good and quiet I have not been able to persuade you no longer to aspire to the Princess, your cousin, I think it would not be amiss if every one traveled separately into different countries, so that you might not meet each other.

Who acts: sultan, difficulty, one, Princes · What happens: find, send, say, not be, persuade, aspire · To what, where: Princes, Children, different countries, each · 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 (sultan, difficulty, one, Princes), 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	SCONJ	_	3 found	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	advcl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	obj
5	positively	positively	ADV	_	6 obstinate	advmod
6	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 found	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	nsubj
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sent	obl
12	all	all	ADV	_	13 together	advmod
13	together	together	ADV	_	9 sent	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 sent	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Children	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Children	punct
21	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 good	punct
23	since	since	SCONJ	_	26 good	mark
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 good	case
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 good	nmod:poss
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Children	acl:relcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 quiet	cc
28	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 good	conj
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 able	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 able	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 able	advmod
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 able	cop
33	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 good	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 persuade	mark
35	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 able	xcomp
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 persuade	obj
37	no	no	ADV	_	38 longer	advmod
38	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 persuade	advmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 aspire	mark
40	aspire	aspire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 persuade	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 Princess	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Princess	det
43	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 aspire	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 cousin	punct
45	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 cousin	nmod:poss
46	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 Princess	appos
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 think	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 think	nsubj
49	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 good	parataxis
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 amiss	nsubj
51	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 amiss	aux
52	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 amiss	advmod
53	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 amiss	cop
54	amiss	amiss	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 think	ccomp
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 traveled	mark
56	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	57 one	det
57	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 traveled	nsubj
58	traveled	travel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 amiss	advcl
59	separately	separately	ADV	_	58 traveled	advmod
60	into	into	ADP	_	62 countries	case
61	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 countries	amod
62	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 traveled	obl
63	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 meet	punct
64	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	69 meet	mark
65	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 so	fixed
66	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	69 meet	nsubj
67	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	69 meet	aux
68	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	69 meet	advmod
69	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 traveled	parataxis
70	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	69 meet	obj
71	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 each	fixed
72	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past	sultan	Princes = prince			obstinate property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
2	send	past	sultan				for Princes = prince; together property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	sultan not said here	Children	Princes = prince			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
4	not is in a quote	present · perfect	sultan				able property	tree rules
5	persuade in a quote	to-infinitive	sultan not said here	Princes = prince			long property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
6	aspire in a quote	to-infinitive	sultan not said here				to the Princess	tree rules
7	think speech: other in a quote	present	sultan					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	not is in a quote	would	difficulty				amiss property	tree rules
9	travel a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	participle	every one			different countries	separately property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination
10	not meet in a quote	might	Princes = prince	each				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-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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