The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 31
Prince Houssain would not honor the feast with his presence.
Who acts: Houssain · What happens: not honor · To what, where: feast
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 (Houssain), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 honor | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 honor | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 honor | advmod |
| 5 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honor | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 presence | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 presence | nmod:poss |
| 10 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 honor | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 honor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not honor | would | Houssain Prince | the feast | with Prince's presence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme |
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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