The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 57
As the Fairy Paribanou pronounced these last words with a different tone, and looked, at the same time, tenderly upon Prince Ahmed, with a modest blush on her cheeks, it was no hard matter for the Prince to comprehend what happiness she meant.
Who acts: Fairy Paribanou, it, happiness · What happens: pronounce, look, be, comprehend, mean · To what, where: last words, hard matter
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 (Fairy Paribanou, it, happiness), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 pronounced | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Paribanou | det |
| 3 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Paribanou | compound |
| 4 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pronounced | nsubj |
| 5 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 matter | advcl |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 words | amod |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pronounced | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tone | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tone | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tone | amod |
| 12 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 words | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looked | cc |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pronounced | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tenderly | punct |
| 22 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 Ahmed | case |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ahmed | compound |
| 25 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 tenderly | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 blush | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 blush | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 blush | det |
| 29 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blush | amod |
| 30 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looked | obl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 cheeks | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 blush | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pronounced | punct |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 matter | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 matter | cop |
| 37 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 matter | det |
| 38 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 matter | amod |
| 39 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 Prince | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Prince | det |
| 42 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 matter | nmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 comprehend | mark |
| 44 | comprehend | comprehend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 matter | advcl |
| 45 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 48 meant | obj |
| 46 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 meant | nsubj |
| 47 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 meant | nsubj |
| 48 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 comprehend | ccomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | past | the Fairy Paribanou | this last words | with a different tone | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent word=Theme with tone=Manner | |||
| 2 | look | past | the Fairy Paribanou not said here | time | with a modest blush on Paribanou's cheeks | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | past | it | no hard matter | for the Prince | tree rules | |||
| 4 | comprehend | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | mean | past | happiness | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
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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