The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 12

At the end of six months Prince Ahmed, who always loved and honored the Sultan his father, conceived a great desire to know how he was, and that desire could not be satisfied without his going to see; he told the Fairy of it, and desired she would give him leave.

Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, Fairy · What happens: love, honor, conceive, know, be, not satisfy · To what, where: Sultan, great desire, end, desire, Fairy, Ahmed · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ahmed, Ahmed, Fairy), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 end	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 end	det
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conceived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 months	case
5	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 months	nummod
6	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 Ahmed	obl
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ahmed	compound
8	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 end	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 loved	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 loved	nsubj
11	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	12 loved	advmod
12	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 Ahmed	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 honored	cc
14	honored	honor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 loved	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Sultan	det
16	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 honored	obj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 father	nmod:poss
18	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 honored	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 end	punct
20	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 desire	det
22	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 desire	amod
23	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conceived	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 know	mark
25	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 conceived	advcl
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 was	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 was	nsubj
28	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 know	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 satisfied	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 satisfied	cc
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 desire	det
32	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 satisfied	nsubj:pass
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 satisfied	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 satisfied	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 satisfied	aux:pass
36	satisfied	satisfy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 conceived	parataxis
37	without	without	SCONJ	_	39 going	mark
38	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 going	nsubj
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 satisfied	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 see	mark
41	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 going	xcomp
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 told	punct
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 told	nsubj
44	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 conceived	parataxis
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Fairy	det
46	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 told	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 Fairy	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 desired	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 desired	cc
51	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 told	conj
52	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 give	aux
54	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 desired	ccomp
55	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 give	iobj
56	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 give	xcomp
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 conceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	Prince Ahmed				always property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
2	honor	past	Prince Ahmed not said here	the Sultan				tree rules
3	conceive	past		a great desire		at the end Prince Ahmed		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Theme
4	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be	past	Ahmed					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not satisfy	could · passive		that desire				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
7	go	gerund	Ahmed					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	see	to-infinitive	Ahmed not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	tell speech: assert	past	Ahmed		the Fairy of desire			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient
10	desire	past	Ahmed not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
11	give	would	Fairy		Ahmed			tree rules
12	leave	infinitive	Fairy not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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