The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 61
This discourse of the Fairy’s did not in the least frighten Prince Ahmed.
Who acts: discourse · What happens: not frighten, discourse · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, Fairy
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 (discourse), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 discourse | det |
| 2 | discourse | discourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 frighten | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Fairy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 discourse | nmod |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Fairy | case |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 frighten | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 frighten | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 frighten | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 least | det |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 frighten | nsubj |
| 12 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmed | compound |
| 14 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 frighten | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 frighten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not frighten | past · do-support | this discourse of the Fairy | Prince Ahmed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ahmed=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | discourse | the Fairy | nom discourse «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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