The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 9
When the Princes met they showed each other their treasures, and immediately saw through the glass that the Princess was dying.
Who acts: Princes, experiments, Princess · What happens: meet, show, see, die, treasure · To what, where: other treasures, glass
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 (Princes, experiments, Princess), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 met | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princes | det |
| 3 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 met | nsubj |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | advcl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 showed | nsubj |
| 6 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 treasures | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 treasures | amod |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 treasures | nmod:poss |
| 10 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 showed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 13 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 14 saw | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 showed | conj |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 dying | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 dying | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dying | aux |
| 22 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the Princes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | past | experiments = experiment | experiments's other treasures | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | past | experiments = experiment not said here | the glass | immediately property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | die | past · progressive | the Princess | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | treasure | experiments = experiment | nom treasure «possession 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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