The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 37
When Prince Ahmed came pretty nigh to these rocks he perceived an arrow, which he gathered up, looked earnestly at it, and was in the greatest astonishment to find it was the same he shot away.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, place · What happens: come, perceive, gather up, look, be, find · To what, where: rocks, arrow, greatest astonishment · 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 (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, place), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 came | mark |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahmed | compound |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 looked | advcl |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 6 nigh | advmod |
| 6 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 rocks | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 rocks | det |
| 9 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 perceived | nsubj |
| 11 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 arrow | det |
| 13 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perceived | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gathered | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 gathered | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gathered | nsubj |
| 17 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 gathered | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 astonishment | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 astonishment | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 astonishment | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 astonishment | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 astonishment | det |
| 29 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 astonishment | amod |
| 30 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | parataxis |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 find | mark |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 astonishment | csubj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 same | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 same | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 find | ccomp |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 shot | nsubj |
| 38 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 same | acl:relcl |
| 39 | away | away | ADV | _ | 38 shot | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Prince Ahmed | this rocks | nigh property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | perceive | past | Ahmed | a arrow | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer arrow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gather up | past | Ahmed | a arrow | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | at place; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | the greatest astonishment | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | place | same property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | shoot away | past | Ahmed | away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/50/37/