The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 45
The magician, who saw it was in vain for her to search any farther, was obliged to be satisfied with the discovery she had made, and returned to give the Sultan an account.
Who acts: magician, Fairy · What happens: see, be, search, oblige, make, return · To what, where: magician, discovery, account, Sultan · 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 (magician, Fairy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3759): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | 18 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 magician | acl:relcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 vain | expl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 vain | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 vain | case |
| 9 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 search | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 search | mark |
| 13 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 vain | csubj |
| 14 | any | any | ADV | _ | 15 farther | advmod |
| 15 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 search | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | aux:pass |
| 18 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 satisfied | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 satisfied | cop |
| 21 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 obliged | xcomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 discovery | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 discovery | det |
| 24 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 satisfied | obl |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 made | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 made | aux |
| 27 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 discovery | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 returned | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 returned | cc |
| 30 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obliged | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 give | mark |
| 32 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 returned | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sultan | det |
| 34 | Sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | iobj |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 account | det |
| 36 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 give | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the magician | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | vain property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | search | to-infinitive | Fairy | far property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | oblige | past · passive | the magician | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | with the discovery; satisfied property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | make | past · perfect | Fairy | the discovery not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discovery=Product | ||||
| 7 | return | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | give | to-infinitive | a account | the Sultan | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Recipient account=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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