The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 10
However, Paribanou saved her the trouble, and said to her: “Good woman, I am glad I had an opportunity to oblige you, and to see you are able to pursue your journey.
Who acts: Paribanou, magician, your · What happens: save, say, be, have, oblige, see · To what, where: trouble, magician, Good woman, opportunity, journey · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paribanou, magician, your), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 saved | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | nsubj |
| 4 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saved | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 trouble | det |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saved | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saved | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 woman | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 woman | punct |
| 15 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | amod |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 glad | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 glad | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 glad | cop |
| 20 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woman | conj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 glad | ccomp |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 opportunity | det |
| 24 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 oblige | mark |
| 26 | oblige | oblige | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 opportunity | acl |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 oblige | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 see | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 see | cc |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 oblige | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 able | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 able | cop |
| 34 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 see | ccomp |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 pursue | mark |
| 36 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 able | xcomp |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 journey | nmod:poss |
| 38 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pursue | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | past | Paribanou | the trouble | magician | however property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Paribanou not said here | Good woman | magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Paribanou | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | Paribanou | a opportunity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient | ||||
| 5 | oblige in a quote | to-infinitive | Paribanou not said here | magician | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Paribanou not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | magician | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | pursue in a quote | to-infinitive | magician not said here | your journey | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | ||||
| 9 | journey in a quote | your | nom journey «act 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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