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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 21

Though he knew not absolutely how great the power of genies and fairies was, he doubted whether it extended so far as to compass such a tent as his father desired.

Who acts: Prince, power, father · What happens: not know, be, doubt, extend, desire · To what, where: compass, tent · 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 (Prince, power, father), 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

marknsubjadvcladvmodadvmodadvmodccompdetnsubjcasenmodccconjcoppunctnsubjmarknsubjccompadvmodadvmodcasemarkobjdet:predetdetconjmarknmod:possnsubjacl:relclpunctrootThoughSCONJhePRONknewVERBnotPARTabsolutelyADVhowADVgreatADJtheDETpowerNOUNofADPgeniesNOUNandCCONJfairiesNOUNwasAUX,PUNCThePRONdoubtedVERBwhetherSCONJitPRONextendedVERBsoADVfarADVasADPtoPARTcompassNOUNsuchDETaDETtentNOUNasSCONJhisPRONfatherNOUNdesiredVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThoughthoughSCONJ_3 knewmark
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 knewnsubj
3knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 doubtedadvcl
4notnotPARTPolarity=Neg3 knewadvmod
5absolutelyabsolutelyADV_7 greatadvmod
6howhowADVPronType=Int7 greatadvmod
7greatgreatADJDegree=Pos3 knewccomp
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art9 powerdet
9powerpowerNOUNNumber=Sing14 wasnsubj
10ofofADP_11 geniescase
11geniesgenieNOUNNumber=Plur9 powernmod
12andandCCONJ_13 fairiescc
13fairiesfairyNOUNNumber=Plur11 geniesconj
14wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin7 greatcop
15,,PUNCT_3 knewpunct
16hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 doubtednsubj
17doubteddoubtVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
18whetherwhetherSCONJ_20 extendedmark
19ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 extendednsubj
20extendedextendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 doubtedccomp
21sosoADV_22 faradvmod
22farfarADVDegree=Pos25 compassadvmod
23asasADP_25 compasscase
24totoPART_25 compassmark
25compasscompassNOUNNumber=Sing20 extendedobj
26suchsuchDETPronType=Ind28 tentdet:predet
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 tentdet
28tenttentNOUNNumber=Sing25 compassconj
29asasSCONJ_32 desiredmark
30hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 fathernmod:poss
31fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing32 desirednsubj
32desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 tentacl:relcl
33..PUNCT_17 doubtedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1not knowpastPrincevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2ispastabsolutely, great propertytree rules
3doubtpastPrincevn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4extendpastpowercompass and such tentvn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent compass=Theme
5desirepastPrince's fathersuch tent not said herevn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot tent=Theme

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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