The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 34
But, as he could not imagine what had become of his arrow, he stole away from his attendants and resolved to search after it, that he might not have anything to reproach himself with.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: not imagine, become, steal away, resolve, search, not have · To what, where: anything, Prince
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 stole | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 imagine | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 imagine | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 imagine | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 imagine | advmod |
| 7 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 stole | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 become | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 become | aux |
| 10 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 imagine | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 arrow | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 become | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 imagine | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stole | nsubj |
| 16 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 stole | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 attendants | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 resolved | cc |
| 22 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stole | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 search | mark |
| 24 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 resolved | xcomp |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 search | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 have | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 30 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 have | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 have | advmod |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 search | conj |
| 33 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 have | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 reproach | mark |
| 35 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 anything | acl |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 reproach | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 reproach | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not imagine | could | Prince | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | of Prince's arrow | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | steal away | past | Prince | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | resolve | past | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | search | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | after wedding | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not have | might | Prince | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 7 | reproach | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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