The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 41
The next morning Prince Ahmed set out by daybreak, without taking leave either of the Sultan or any of his Court, according to custom.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set out, take, leave, accord · To what, where: Sultan
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), 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 5 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Prince | flat |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 daybreak | case |
| 9 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 11 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 12 taking | mark |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 13 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 taking | xcomp |
| 14 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Sultan | det |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 leave | obj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 Court | cc |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 Court | det |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Court | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Sultan | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 custom | punct |
| 24 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 custom | case |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 according | fixed |
| 26 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Prince | morning | by daybreak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | Prince not said here | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | Prince not said here | either Sultan or Prince's Court | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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