The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 34

At last some viziers, the Sultan’s favorites, who judged of Prince Ahmed’s grandeur and power by the figure he cut, made the Sultan jealous of his son, saying it was to be feared he might inveigle himself into the people’s favor and dethrone him.

Who acts: favorites, Prince, people · What happens: judge, cut, make, say, fear, inveigle · To what, where: figure, Sultan, Prince, favor · 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 (favorites, Prince, people), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 viziers	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 viziers	amod
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 viziers	det
4	viziers	vizier	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 viziers	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 favorites	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Sultan	case
9	favorites	favorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 viziers	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 judged	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 judged	nsubj
12	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 favorites	acl:relcl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 grandeur	case
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Ahmed	compound
15	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 grandeur	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 Ahmed	case
17	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 judged	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 power	cc
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grandeur	conj
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 figure	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 figure	det
22	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grandeur	nmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cut	nsubj
24	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 figure	acl:relcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 made	punct
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 judged	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Sultan	det
28	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 made	obj
29	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 made	xcomp
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 son	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 son	nmod:poss
32	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jealous	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 saying	punct
34	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 made	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 feared	nsubj:pass
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 feared	aux:pass
37	to	to	PART	_	39 feared	mark
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 feared	aux:pass
39	feared	fear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 saying	ccomp
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 inveigle	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 inveigle	aux
42	inveigle	inveigle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 feared	ccomp
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 inveigle	obj
44	into	into	ADP	_	48 favor	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 people	det
46	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 favor	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 people	case
48	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 inveigle	obl
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 dethrone	cc
50	dethrone	dethrone	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 inveigle	conj
51	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 dethrone	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 viziers	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	judge	past	the Sultan's favorites		of Prince Ahmed's grandeur by the figure and power	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent of grandeur=Theme
2	cut	past	Prince	the figure not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Product
3	make	past	the Sultan's favorites not said here	the Sultan	jealous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sultan=Product
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the Sultan's favorites not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fear	past · passive		Sultan		tree rules
6	inveigle	might	Prince	Prince	into the people's favor result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into favor=Result
7	dethrone	infinitive	Prince not said here	Prince		tree rules
8	favor		the people			nom favor «act 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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