The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 18
When all was ready Prince Ahmed took his leave of the Fairy, embraced her, and renewed his promise to return soon.
Who acts: ready Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · What happens: be, take, embrace, renew, return, promise · To what, where: ready Prince Ahmed, leave, Fairy, promise
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 (ready Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 took | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Ahmed | det |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Ahmed | cop |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Ahmed | amod |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ahmed | compound |
| 6 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embraced | advcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fairy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embraced | punct |
| 14 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 embraced | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 renewed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 renewed | cc |
| 18 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 embraced | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 renewed | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 return | mark |
| 22 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 promise | acl |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 return | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | all ready Prince Ahmed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | past | all ready Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's leave of the Fairy | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | embrace | past | Fairy | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | renew | past | Ahmed's promise | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent promise=Patient | |||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | Ahmed's promise not said here | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | promise | Ahmed | nom promise «communication 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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