The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 46

It was no small surprise to the Prince to hear himself named in a place he had never heard of, though so nigh to his father’s capital, and he could not comprehend how he should be known to a lady who was a stranger to him.

Who acts: It, Prince, lady · What happens: be, hear, name, not hear, not comprehend, know · To what, where: small surprise, Prince, place, stranger

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 (It, Prince, lady), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 surprise	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 surprise	cop
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 surprise	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 surprise	amod
5	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Prince	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Prince	det
8	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 surprise	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 surprise	csubj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hear	obj
12	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hear	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 place	det
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 heard	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 heard	aux
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 heard	advmod
19	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 place	acl:relcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	19 heard	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 capital	punct
22	though	though	SCONJ	_	29 capital	mark
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 nigh	advmod
24	nigh	nigh	ADV	_	29 capital	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	29 capital	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 capital	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 father	case
29	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 comprehend	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 comprehend	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 comprehend	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 comprehend	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 comprehend	advmod
35	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	conj
36	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 known	advmod
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 known	nsubj:pass
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 known	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 known	aux:pass
40	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 comprehend	advcl
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 lady	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 lady	det
43	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 known	obl
44	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 stranger	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 stranger	cop
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 stranger	det
47	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lady	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stranger	nmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	no small surprise			to the Prince	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive		Prince		a place		tree rules
3	name	participle	Prince not said here					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not hear	past · perfect	Prince	a place not said here			to Prince's father's capital	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus
5	not comprehend	could	Prince					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	know	should · passive		Prince			to a lady and a stranger	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
7	is a	past	a lady and a stranger	a stranger	Prince			tree rules

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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