The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 37
Nourgihan,” said she to her treasurer, taking the tent out of Prince Ahmed’s hands, “go and set it up, that the Prince may judge whether it may be large enough for the Sultan his father.”
Who acts: Nourgihan, Prince, hand · What happens: say, take, go, set up, judge, be · To what, where: treasurer, tent, hands, hand · 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 (Nourgihan, Prince, hand), 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 | Nourgihan | Nourgihan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nourgihan | punct |
| 3 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nourgihan | punct |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 treasurer | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treasurer | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tent | det |
| 12 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hands | case |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ahmed | compound |
| 16 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Ahmed | case |
| 18 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 taking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 taking | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 judge | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 judge | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Prince | det |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 judge | nsubj |
| 30 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 judge | aux |
| 31 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 set | conj |
| 32 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 36 large | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 large | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 large | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 large | cop |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 judge | advcl |
| 37 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 36 large | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 Sultan | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Sultan | det |
| 40 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 large | obl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 father | nmod:poss |
| 42 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 large | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Nourgihan | Nourgihan's treasurer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to treasurer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | Nourgihan not said here | the tent | Prince Ahmed's hands | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tent=Theme out hand=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | infinitive | Nourgihan not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set up | infinitive | Nourgihan not said here | hand | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | ||||
| 5 | judge | may | the Prince | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | may | hand | for the Sultan; enough, large property | tree rules |
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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