The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 6

Upon which Prince Ahmed told the crier he would give him forty purses if he cured the sick person.

Who acts: Prince, crier · What happens: tell, give, cure · To what, where: crier, forty purses, Prince, sick person · 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, crier), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	2 which	case
2	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 told	obl
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
4	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Prince	flat
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crier	det
7	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 give	aux
10	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 give	iobj
12	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 purses	nummod
13	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 give	obj
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 cured	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 cured	nsubj
16	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 give	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 person	det
18	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 person	amod
19	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cured	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Prince		the crier	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent crier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give	would	crier	forty purses	Prince	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient purse=Theme
3	cure a condition, not said to happen	past	crier	the sick person		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer person=Source

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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