The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 46
The Sultan was very well pleased with the magician’s conduct, and said to her: “Do you as you think fit; I’ll wait patiently the event of your promises,” and to encourage her made her a present of a diamond of great value.
Who acts: Sultan, Fairy, I, magician, your · What happens: be, say, do, think, wait, encourage · To what, where: Fairy, fit, event, present · 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, Fairy, I, magician), 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 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 conduct | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 magician | det |
| 9 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 magician | case |
| 11 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleased | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Do | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Do | punct |
| 19 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 Do | obj |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 think | nsubj |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Do | advcl |
| 24 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 think | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 wait | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wait | nsubj |
| 27 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 wait | aux |
| 28 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleased | parataxis |
| 29 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 28 wait | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 event | det |
| 31 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wait | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 promises | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 promises | nmod:poss |
| 34 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 event | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 promises | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 wait | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 encourage | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 encourage | mark |
| 39 | encourage | encourage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 wait | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 encourage | obj |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 encourage | ccomp |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | obj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 present | det |
| 44 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 made | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 diamond | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 diamond | det |
| 47 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 present | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 value | case |
| 49 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 value | amod |
| 50 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 diamond | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Sultan | with the magician's conduct; pleased, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | Fairy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Fairy | fit | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wait in a quote | future | I | the event of your promises | patiently property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | encourage | to-infinitive | I not said here | Fairy | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | make | past | I not said here | a present of a diamond of great value | Fairy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 8 | conduct | the magician | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication 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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