The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 18
When the magician had finished her speech, the Sultan asked his favorites if they had anything better to propose; and, finding them all silent, determined to follow the magician’s advice, as the most reasonable and most agreeable to his mild government.
Who acts: magician, Sultan, favorites · What happens: finish, ask, have, propose, find, follow · To what, where: speech, favorites, anything, advice · 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 (magician, Sultan, favorites), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 speech | nmod:poss |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sultan | det |
| 10 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speech | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 favorites | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favorites | favorite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 anything | amod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 propose | mark |
| 20 | propose | propose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 better | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 finding | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 finding | cc |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 finding | punct |
| 24 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 finished | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 finding | obj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 finding | obj |
| 27 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 all | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 determined | punct |
| 29 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 silent | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 follow | mark |
| 31 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 determined | xcomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 magician | det |
| 33 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 advice | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 magician | case |
| 35 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 follow | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 reasonable | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 40 reasonable | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 reasonable | det |
| 39 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 40 reasonable | advmod |
| 40 | reasonable | reasonable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 follow | parataxis |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 agreeable | cc |
| 42 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 43 agreeable | advmod |
| 43 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 reasonable | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 government | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 government | nmod:poss |
| 46 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 government | amod |
| 47 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 agreeable | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | the magician | magician's speech | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality speech=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan | majesty's favorites | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favorite=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | favorites = favorite | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | propose | to-infinitive | favorites = favorite not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | gerund | the magician not said here | favorites = favorite | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme all=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | follow | to-infinitive | favorites = favorite not said here | the magician's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 7 | speak | magician | nom speech «communication 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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