The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 52
At these words the magician, who pretended sickness only to know where the Prince lived and what he did, refused not the charitable offer he made her, and that her actions might correspond with her words she made many pretended vain endeavors to get up.
Who acts: magician, Prince, actions, action, leave · What happens: pretend, know, live, do, not refuse, make · To what, where: sickness, charitable offer, leave, many pretended vain endeavors
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, actions, action), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 magician | det |
| 5 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 words | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pretended | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 pretended | nsubj |
| 8 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 magician | acl:relcl |
| 9 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pretended | obj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 know | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | xcomp |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 what | cc |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 refused | punct |
| 22 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pretended | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 refused | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 offer | det |
| 25 | charitable | charitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 offer | amod |
| 26 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 refused | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 offer | acl:relcl |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 correspond | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 correspond | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 correspond | mark |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 actions | nmod:poss |
| 34 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 correspond | nsubj |
| 35 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 correspond | aux |
| 36 | correspond | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pretended | conj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 words | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 words | nmod:poss |
| 39 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 correspond | obl |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 made | nsubj |
| 41 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 words | acl:relcl |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 endeavors | amod |
| 43 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 endeavors | amod |
| 44 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 endeavors | amod |
| 45 | endeavors | endeavor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 made | obj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 get | mark |
| 47 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 endeavors | acl |
| 48 | up | up | ADP | _ | 47 get | compound:prt |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | the magician | sickness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the Prince | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do | past | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not refuse | past | the magician not said here | the charitable offer | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | make | past | Prince | leave | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Product | ||||
| 7 | correspond | might | leave's actions | with action's words | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with word=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | make | past | action | many pretended vain endeavors | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent endeavor=Product | ||||
| 9 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 10 | get up | to-infinitive | action not said here | many pretended vain endeavors not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 11 | act | leave | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | word | action | nom word «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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