The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 17

The Sultan of the Indies, having heard, without interrupting them, all that the Princes could represent further about their rarities, and being well informed of what had happened in relation to the Princess Nouronnihar’s cure, remained some time silent, as if he were thinking on what answer he should make.

Who acts: Princes, Prince · What happens: hear, interrupt, represent, inform, happen, remain · To what, where: Sultan, women, relation, answer · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princes, Prince), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 heard	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Indies	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Indies	det
5	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 Sultan	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct
7	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heard	aux
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 interrupting	punct
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 interrupting	mark
11	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 heard	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 interrupting	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 represent	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 represent	det:predet
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 represent	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Princes	det
17	Princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 represent	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 represent	aux
19	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 heard	conj
20	further	further	ADV	_	19 represent	advmod
21	about	about	ADP	_	23 rarities	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 rarities	nmod:poss
23	rarities	rarity	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 represent	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 informed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 informed	cc
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 informed	aux:pass
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 informed	advmod
28	informed	inform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heard	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 what	case
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 happened	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 happened	aux
32	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 informed	ccomp
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 relation	case
34	relation	relation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 happened	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	40 cure	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Nouronnihar	det
37	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Nouronnihar	compound
38	Nouronnihar	Nouronnihar	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 cure	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Nouronnihar	case
40	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 happened	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 remained	punct
42	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	conj
43	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	44 time	det
44	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 remained	obj
45	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 remained	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 thinking	punct
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 thinking	mark
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	51 thinking	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 thinking	nsubj
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 thinking	aux
51	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 remained	advcl
52	on	on	ADP	_	54 answer	case
53	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	54 answer	nsubj
54	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 thinking	obl
55	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 make	nsubj
56	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 make	aux
57	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 answer	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund · perfect · passive		the Sultan of the Indies				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	interrupt	gerund		women = woman				tree rules
3	represent	could	the Princes				about women's rarities; further property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	inform speech: other	gerund · passive					well property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: clause=Topic
5	happen	past · perfect			relation		to the Princess Nouronnihar's cure	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in relation=Location
6	remain	past				time	silent property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	think speech: other	past · progressive	Prince				on answer	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on answer=Topic
8	make	should	Prince	answer not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product

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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