The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 33
When Prince Ahmed saw the pavilion which the Fairy called the largest in her treasury, he fancied she had a mind to jest with him, and thereupon the marks of his surprise appeared presently in his countenance; which Paribanou perceiving burst out laughing.
Who acts: Prince, Fairy, Nourgiham, marks, Paribanou · What happens: see, call, fancy, have, jest, appear · To what, where: pavilion, mind, countenance, surprise · 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, Fairy, Nourgiham, marks), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | flat |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fancied | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pavilion | det |
| 6 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 called | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pavilion | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 largest | det |
| 12 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 called | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 treasury | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 treasury | nmod:poss |
| 15 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 largest | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 fancied | nsubj |
| 18 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fancied | ccomp |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 mind | det |
| 22 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 jest | mark |
| 24 | jest | jest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mind | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 jest | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 appeared | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 appeared | cc |
| 29 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 marks | det |
| 31 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 appeared | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 surprise | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 34 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 marks | nmod |
| 35 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fancied | conj |
| 36 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 35 appeared | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 countenance | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 39 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 appeared | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 burst | punct |
| 41 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 Paribanou | acl |
| 44 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 fancied | parataxis |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 burst | compound:prt |
| 46 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 burst | xcomp |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | the pavilion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pavilion=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | call | past | the Fairy | the pavilion | large property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fancy | past | Prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Nourgiham | a mind | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient | ||||
| 5 | jest speech: other | to-infinitive | Nourgiham not said here | a mind not said here | with Prince | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | appear | past | the marks of Prince's surprise | Prince's countenance | presently, thereupon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in countenance=Location | |||
| 7 | perceive | gerund | Paribanou not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | burst out | participle · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | mark | Prince's surprise | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 11 | surprise | Prince | nom surprise «feeling 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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