The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 37
The Sultan of the Indies said this that his favorites might not know the impressions their discourse had made on his mind; which had so alarmed him that he resolved to have Prince Ahmed watched unknown to his grand vizier.
Who acts: Sultan, favorites, impressions, Son · What happens: say, not know, make, alarm, resolve, have · To what, where: this, discourse, mind, impressions, Prince Ahmed · 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, favorites, impressions, Son), 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 | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Indies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Indies | det |
| 5 | Indies | indy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Sultan | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 said | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 favorites | nmod:poss |
| 10 | favorites | favorite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 impressions | det |
| 15 | impressions | impression | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 watched | nsubj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 discourse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 made | aux |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 impressions | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 mind | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mind | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 alarmed | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 alarmed | aux |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 alarmed | advmod |
| 27 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 impressions | acl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 alarmed | obj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 resolved | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 resolved | nsubj |
| 31 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 alarmed | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 resolved | xcomp |
| 34 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ahmed | compound |
| 35 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | ccomp |
| 37 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 watched | xcomp |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 vizier | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 vizier | nmod:poss |
| 40 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 vizier | amod |
| 41 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 unknown | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Sultan of the Indies | this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | might | Son's favorites | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the impressions not said here | favorites's discourse | Son's mind | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||
| 4 | alarm | past · perfect · passive | the impressions | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer he=Result | |||||
| 5 | resolve | past | Son | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | Son not said here | Prince Ahmed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Patient | ||||
| 7 | watch | past | the impressions | unknown property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | discourse | favorites = favorite | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | mind | Son | nom mind «cognition 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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