The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 13

Though the Sultan of the Indies was very well persuaded that Prince Ahmed’s natural disposition was good, yet he could not help being concerned at the discourse of the old sorceress, to whom, when she was taking her leave, he said: “I thank thee for the pains thou hast taken, and thy wholesome advice.

Who acts: Sultan, natural disposition, Ahmed, magician, thou · What happens: be, not help, take, say, thank, discourse · To what, where: discourse, leave, thee, pains, old sorceress · 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 (Sultan, natural disposition, Ahmed, 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	Though	though	SCONJ	_	10 persuaded	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 persuaded	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Indies	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Indies	det
6	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 Sultan	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 persuaded	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 well	advmod
9	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 persuaded	advmod
10	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 said	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 good	mark
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Ahmed	compound
13	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 disposition	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 Ahmed	case
15	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 disposition	amod
16	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 good	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 good	cop
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 persuaded	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 help	punct
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	24 help	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 help	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 help	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 help	advmod
24	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persuaded	parataxis
25	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 concerned	cop
26	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 help	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 discourse	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 discourse	det
29	discourse	discourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 concerned	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 sorceress	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 sorceress	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sorceress	amod
33	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 discourse	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 whom	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	36 whom	case
36	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 help	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 taking	punct
38	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 taking	advmod
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 taking	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 taking	aux
41	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 help	advcl
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 leave	nmod:poss
43	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 taking	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 persuaded	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 said	nsubj
46	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	50 thank	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	50 thank	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 thank	nsubj
50	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 said	ccomp
51	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	50 thank	obj
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 pains	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 pains	det
54	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 thank	obl
55	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	57 taken	nsubj
56	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 taken	aux
57	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 pains	acl:relcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 advice	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 advice	cc
60	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	62 advice	nmod:poss
61	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 advice	amod
62	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 thank	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	46 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sultan of the Indies			persuade, well property	tree rules
2	is	past	Prince Ahmed's natural disposition			good property	tree rules
3	not help	could	Ahmed				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	is not said to happen	gerund	Ahmed not said here		the discourse of the old sorceress	concerned property	tree rules
5	take	past · progressive	magician	magician's leave			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	Ahmed				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	Ahmed	thee		for the pains; thy wholesome advice obl	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for pain=Attribute
8	take in a quote	present · perfect	thou	the pains not said here			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme
9	discourse			the old sorceress			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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