The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 58
He presently considered that the Princess Nouronnihar could never be his and that the Fairy Paribanou excelled her infinitely in beauty, agreeableness, wit, and, as much as he could conjecture by the magnificence of the palace, in immense riches.
Who acts: Prince, Princess Nouronnihar, Fairy Paribanou · What happens: consider, not be, excel, conjecture · To what, where: Ahmed, beauty
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, Princess Nouronnihar, Fairy Paribanou), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 considered | nsubj |
| 2 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 considered | advmod |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 his | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Nouronnihar | det |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 7 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 his | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 his | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 his | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 his | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 considered | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 excelled | cc |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 excelled | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Paribanou | det |
| 15 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Paribanou | compound |
| 16 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 excelled | nsubj |
| 17 | excelled | excel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 his | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | infinitely | infinitely | ADV | _ | 21 beauty | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 beauty | case |
| 21 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 excelled | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 agreeableness | punct |
| 23 | agreeableness | agreeableness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wit | punct |
| 25 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 beauty | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 much | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 much | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 much | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 excelled | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 conjecture | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 conjecture | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 conjecture | aux |
| 34 | conjecture | conjecture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 much | acl |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 magnificence | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 magnificence | det |
| 37 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 conjecture | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 palace | det |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 magnificence | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 riches | punct |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 riches | case |
| 43 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 riches | amod |
| 44 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 conjecture | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | past | Prince | presently property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is a | could | the Princess Nouronnihar | Ahmed | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | excel | past | the Fairy Paribanou | Paribanou's beauty and agreeableness and wit | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conjecture | could | Prince | by the magnificence of the palace | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: 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.
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