The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 33
Prince Ahmed, too, did not come to Prince Ali’s and the Princess Nouronnihar’s wedding any more than his brother Houssain, but did not renounce the world as he had done.
Who acts: Prince, Princess Nouronnihar · What happens: not come, not renounce, do, wed · To what, where: Ali, world
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 (Prince, Princess Nouronnihar), 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 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 2 Ahmed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 come | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 come | advmod |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Ahmed | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ali | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 come | obl |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ali | case |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wedding | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Nouronnihar | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 16 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Nouronnihar | case |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Ali | conj |
| 19 | any | any | ADV | _ | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 come | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 brother | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brother | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 more | obl |
| 24 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 brother | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 renounce | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 renounce | cc |
| 27 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 renounce | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 renounce | advmod |
| 29 | renounce | renounce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 come | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 world | det |
| 31 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 renounce | obj |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 done | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 done | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 done | aux |
| 35 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 renounce | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | past · do-support | Ali Prince and the Princess Nouronnihar's wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ali=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | not renounce | past · do-support | the world | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent world=Source | |||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wed | the Princess Nouronnihar | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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