The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 9
As the three Princes were always submissive and obedient to the Sultan’s will, and each flattered himself fortune might prove favorable to him, they all consented to it.
Who acts: three Princes, each, fortune · What happens: be, flatter, prove, consent · To what, where: sultan, Princes, fortune
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 (three Princes, each, fortune), 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 | _ | 7 submissive | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princes | det |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Princes | nummod |
| 4 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 submissive | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 submissive | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 submissive | advmod |
| 7 | submissive | submissive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 obedient | cc |
| 9 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 submissive | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 will | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Sultan | det |
| 12 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 will | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Sultan | case |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 obedient | aux |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flattered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flattered | cc |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 flattered | nsubj |
| 18 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 submissive | conj |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 flattered | obj |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 prove | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 prove | aux |
| 22 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 flattered | xcomp |
| 23 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 prove | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 favorable | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 consented | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 consented | nsubj |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 consented | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 submissive | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 consented | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 submissive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the three Princes | always, submissive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | future | the three Princes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | flatter | past | each | sultan | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prove | might | fortune | favorable property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | consent | participle · passive | Princes = prince | fortune | tree rules |
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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