The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 40
The treasurer took down the tent again, and brought it to the Prince, who took it, and, without staying any longer than till the next day, mounted his horse, and went with the same attendants to the Sultan his father.
Who acts: treasurer, Prince · What happens: take down, bring, take, stay, mount, go · To what, where: tent, treasurer, Prince, horse, father, Sultan
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 (treasurer, Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 treasurer | det |
| 2 | treasurer | treasurer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tent | det |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 brought | cc |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Prince | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Prince | det |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Prince | acl:relcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 mounted | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 mounted | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 23 staying | mark |
| 23 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 mounted | advcl |
| 24 | any | any | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 staying | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 27 | till | till | ADP | _ | 30 day | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 29 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 day | amod |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 longer | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 staying | punct |
| 32 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 mounted | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 went | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 went | cc |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 attendants | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 attendants | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 attendants | amod |
| 41 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 went | obl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 Sultan | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Sultan | det |
| 44 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 father | nmod:poss |
| 46 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past | the treasurer | the tent | again | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | past | the treasurer not said here | treasurer | the Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to prince=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | past | the Prince | treasurer | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stay | gerund | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | mount | past | the Prince not said here | Prince's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 6 | go | past | the treasurer not said here | Prince's father | the Sultan | with the same attendants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sultan=Initial_Location |
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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