The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 22

The Sultan received and embraced him with great joy, complaining at the same time, with a fatherly tenderness, of the affliction his long absence had been to him, which he said was the more grievous for that, fortune having decided in favor of Prince Ali his brother, he was afraid he might have committed some rash action.

Who acts: Sultan, Ahmed, brother · What happens: receive, embrace, complain, be, say, decide · To what, where: Ahmed, long absence, fortune, favor, rash action, Ali · 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 (Sultan, Ahmed, brother), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 embraced	cc
5	embraced	embrace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 embraced	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 joy	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 joy	amod
9	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 embraced	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 complaining	punct
11	complaining	complain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 embraced	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 time	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 complaining	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tenderness	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 tenderness	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tenderness	det
19	fatherly	fatherly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tenderness	amod
20	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 complaining	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 affliction	punct
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 affliction	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 affliction	det
24	affliction	affliction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 complaining	obl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 absence	nmod:poss
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 absence	amod
27	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 affliction	appos
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 him	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 him	cop
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 absence	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 said	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 said	obj
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
35	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 absence	parataxis
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 grievous	cop
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 grievous	det
38	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 grievous	advmod
39	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	ccomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 that	case
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 grievous	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 decided	punct
43	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 decided	nsubj:pass
44	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 decided	aux
45	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 grievous	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 favor	case
47	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 decided	obl
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 Ali	case
49	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	50 Ali	nmod:desc
50	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 favor	nmod
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 brother	nmod:poss
52	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 decided	obl:agent
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 afraid	punct
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 afraid	nsubj
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 afraid	cop
56	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 said	advcl
57	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 committed	nsubj
58	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	60 committed	aux
59	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	60 committed	aux
60	committed	commit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	56 afraid	ccomp
61	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	63 action	det
62	rash	rash	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 action	compound
63	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	60 committed	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the Sultan					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	embrace	past	the Sultan not said here	Ahmed			with great joy	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	complain speech: other	gerund	the Sultan not said here			time	with a fatherly tenderness; of the affliction	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect					to Ahmed	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Ahmed	Ahmed's long absence				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic
6	is	past					for that; grievous property	tree rules
7	decide	gerund · perfect · passive	Ahmed's brother	fortune	favor of Ali Prince			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
8	is	past	Ahmed				afraid property	tree rules
9	commit	might · perfect	Ahmed	some rash action				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent action=Theme
10	absent		Ahmed					nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
11	favor			Ali Prince				nom favor «act transitive»: of=patient

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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