The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 20
As it was not a great way to his father’s capital, Prince Ahmed soon arrived there.
Who acts: adieu, Prince · What happens: not be, arrive · To what, where: great way
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 (adieu, Prince), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 way | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 way | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 way | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 capital | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 capital | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 father | case |
| 12 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | nsubj |
| 15 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Prince | flat |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 arrived | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | adieu | a great way | to Ahmed's father's capital | tree rules | |||
| 2 | arrive | past | Prince | there | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/20/