The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 45

As soon as Prince Ahmed perceived the lady, he made all imaginable haste to go and pay his respects; and the lady, on her part, seeing him coming, prevented him from addressing his discourse to her first, but said to him: “Come nearer, Prince Ahmed, you are welcome.”

Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · What happens: perceive, make, go, pay, see, come · To what, where: lady, imaginable haste, respects, Ahmed, discourse, Prince Ahmed · 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), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 made	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 perceived	mark
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Ahmed	compound
5	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	nsubj
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lady	det
8	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 perceived	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 perceived	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 haste	det
13	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 haste	amod
14	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 go	mark
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 haste	acl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 pay	cc
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 go	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 respects	nmod:poss
20	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pay	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 lady	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lady	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lady	det
24	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 part	punct
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 part	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 part	nmod:poss
28	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lady	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 seeing	punct
30	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 made	advcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 seeing	obj
32	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 seeing	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prevented	punct
34	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 prevented	obj
36	from	from	SCONJ	_	37 addressing	mark
37	addressing	address	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 prevented	advcl
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 discourse	nmod:poss
39	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 addressing	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 first	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 first	nmod:poss
42	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	37 addressing	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 said	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 said	cc
45	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 said	obl
48	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct
49	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct
50	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 said	ccomp
51	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	50 Come	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Ahmed	punct
53	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	54 Ahmed	compound
54	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Come	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 welcome	punct
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 welcome	nsubj
57	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 welcome	cop
58	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Come	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	50 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Prince Ahmed	the lady			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus
2	make	past	Ahmed	all imaginable haste		the lady and lady's part obl; soon property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product
3	go	to-infinitive	Ahmed not said here	all imaginable haste not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pay	infinitive	Ahmed not said here	Ahmed's respects			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent respects=Asset
5	see	gerund	Ahmed not said here	Ahmed			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
6	come	gerund	Ahmed not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	prevent	past	Ahmed not said here	Ahmed			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
8	address	gerund	Ahmed not said here	Ahmed's discourse		to lady's first	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discourse=Destination
9	say speech: assert	past	Ahmed not said here		Ahmed		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
10	come in a quote	infinitive		Prince Ahmed		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	is in a quote	present	Ahmed			welcome property	tree rules
12	discourse		Ahmed				nom discourse «communication 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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