The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 40
The magician left the Sultan, and, knowing the place where Prince Ahmed found his arrow, went immediately thither, and hid herself near the rocks, so that nobody could see her.
Who acts: magician, Prince, knowing, nobody · What happens: leave, know, find, go, hide, see · To what, where: Sultan, place, arrow, discourse, rocks
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 (magician, Prince, knowing, nobody), 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 magician | det |
| 2 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knowing | punct |
| 9 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 went | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knowing | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 found | advmod |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 found | nsubj |
| 14 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prince | flat |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knowing | punct |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 20 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 21 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 19 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hid | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hid | cc |
| 24 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 25 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 hid | obj |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 28 rocks | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rocks | det |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hid | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 30 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 34 see | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 so | fixed |
| 32 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 hid | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the magician | the Sultan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Prince | magician's arrow | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Topic | ||||
| 4 | go | past | knowing | immediately, thither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hide | past | discourse | the rocks | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient near rock=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | could | nobody | discourse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
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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