The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 12
Then the magician went back and related to the Sultan of the Indies all that had happened, and how very rich Prince Ahmed was since his marriage with the Fairy, richer than all the kings in the world, and how there was danger that he should come and take the throne from his father.
Who acts: magician, that, rich Prince Ahmed, Ahmed · What happens: go back, happen, be, come, take · To what, where: danger, throne
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 (magician, that, rich Prince Ahmed, Ahmed), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 related | cc |
| 7 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Sultan | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 related | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Indies | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Indies | det |
| 13 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 Sultan | nmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 happened | det:predet |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 marriage | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 marriage | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 very | advmod |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 rich | advmod |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Ahmed | amod |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Ahmed | compound |
| 24 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 marriage | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 marriage | cop |
| 26 | since | since | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Fairy | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fairy | det |
| 31 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 marriage | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 richer | punct |
| 33 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 Fairy | amod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 kings | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 kings | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 kings | det |
| 37 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 richer | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 world | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 world | det |
| 40 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 kings | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 danger | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 danger | cc |
| 43 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 45 was | advmod |
| 44 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 45 was | expl |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 danger | cop |
| 46 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 come | mark |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 come | nsubj |
| 49 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 50 come | aux |
| 50 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 danger | acl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 take | cc |
| 52 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 come | conj |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 throne | det |
| 54 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 take | obj |
| 55 | from | from | ADP | _ | 57 father | case |
| 56 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 father | nmod:poss |
| 57 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 take | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the magician | then | related property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | rich Prince Ahmed | since Ahmed's marriage | with the Fairy | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | danger | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come | should | Ahmed | danger not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location danger=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | Ahmed not said here | the throne | from Ahmed's father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent throne=Theme from father=Initial_Location |
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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