The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 19
Next day the Sultan did as the magician had advised him, and asked for the pavilion.
Who acts: Sultan, magician · What happens: do, advise, ask · To what, where: majesty
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, magician), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg503:3791): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Sultan | det |
| 4 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 advised | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 advised | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 advised | aux |
| 10 | advised | advise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 did | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 advised | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 pavilion | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pavilion | det |
| 17 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Sultan | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past · perfect | the magician | majesty | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan not said here | for the pavilion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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