The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 28

Prince Ahmed stayed but three days at the Sultan his father’s Court, and the fourth returned to the Fairy Paribanou, who did not expect him so soon.

Who acts: Prince Ahmed, fourth, Fairy Paribanou · What happens: stay, return, not expect · To what, where: Court, Sultan, Ahmed

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, fourth, Fairy Paribanou), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Ahmed	compound
2	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 days	cc
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 days	nummod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stayed	obl:unmarked
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 Sultan	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Sultan	det
9	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Court	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 father	case
13	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 returned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 returned	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fourth	det
17	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 returned	nsubj
18	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	22 Paribanou	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Paribanou	det
21	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Paribanou	compound
22	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 returned	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 expect	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 expect	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 expect	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 expect	advmod
27	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 Paribanou	parataxis
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 expect	obj
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 soon	advmod
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 expect	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	Prince Ahmed	Ahmed's father's Court	the Sultan	day		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sultan=Location
2	return	past	the fourth				to the Fairy Paribanou result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to paribanou=Result
3	not expect	past · do-support	the Fairy Paribanou	Ahmed			soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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