The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 15
Now the favorites advised that the Prince should be killed, but the magician advised differently: “Make him give you all kinds of wonderful things, by the Fairy’s help, till she tires of him and sends him away.
Who acts: favorites, magician, Ahmed, Fairy · What happens: advise, kill, make, give, tire, send away · To what, where: Prince, Ahmed, kinds, you · 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 (favorites, magician, Ahmed, Fairy), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 advised | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 favorites | det |
| 3 | favorites | favorite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 advised | nsubj |
| 4 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 killed | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 killed | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 killed | aux:pass |
| 10 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 advised | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 advised | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 advised | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advised | nsubj |
| 15 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 advised | conj |
| 16 | differently | differently | ADV | _ | 15 advised | advmod |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 Make | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Make | punct |
| 19 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 advised | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Make | obj |
| 21 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 Make | xcomp |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 give | iobj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 kinds | det |
| 24 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 give | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 things | case |
| 26 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 things | amod |
| 27 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 kinds | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 help | punct |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 help | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Fairy | det |
| 31 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 help | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Fairy | case |
| 33 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 give | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tires | punct |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 tires | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tires | nsubj |
| 37 | tires | tire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Make | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tires | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sends | cc |
| 41 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 tires | conj |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 sends | obj |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 41 sends | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other | past | the favorites | now | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | kill | should · passive | the Prince | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | the magician | differently property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | infinitive | Ahmed | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | infinitive | Ahmed not said here | all kinds of wonderful things | you | by the Fairy's help | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient kind=Theme | ||
| 6 | tire in a quote | present | magician | of Ahmed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | send away in a quote | present | magician not said here | Ahmed | away property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 8 | help in a quote | the Fairy | nom help «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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