The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 25
“Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “what your Majesty asks of me is part of the mystery I spoke to your Majesty of.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, Majesty · What happens: reply, ask, be, speak · To what, where: part, mystery · 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, Majesty), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ahmed | compound |
| 7 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 part | punct |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 asks | obj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asks | nsubj |
| 13 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 part | csubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 asks | obl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 part | cop |
| 17 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mystery | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mystery | det |
| 20 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 part | nmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 mystery | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 Majesty | case |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spoke | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Majesty | case |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | your Majesty | part | of Prince Ahmed = ahmed | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | part | of the mystery | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other in a quote | past | Prince Ahmed = ahmed | the mystery not said here | to your Majesty | tree rules |
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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