The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 41

The Sultan, who was persuaded that there could not be any such thing as such a tent as he asked for, was in a great surprise at the Prince’s diligence.

Who acts: Sultan, father · What happens: persuade, not be, ask, be · To what, where: Sultan, such thing, great surprise

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, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 persuaded	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 persuaded	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 persuaded	aux:pass
6	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Sultan	acl:relcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 there	mark
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 persuaded	advcl
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 thing	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 thing	cop
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 thing	det
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 thing	amod
14	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	as	as	ADP	_	18 tent	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 tent	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 tent	det
18	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thing	nmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 asked	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 asked	nsubj
21	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thing	advcl
22	for	for	ADP	_	21 asked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 surprise	punct
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 surprise	cop
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 surprise	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 surprise	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 surprise	amod
28	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asked	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	33 diligence	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 diligence	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Prince	case
33	diligence	diligence	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 surprise	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persuade	past · passive		the Sultan			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not is a	could	the Sultan	any such thing		as such tent	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	father				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			a great surprise	at the Prince's diligence	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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