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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 69

Then he informed the Sultan what those directions were, and by the relation of this his expedition let him know how well he had behaved himself.

Who acts: majesty, expedition · What happens: inform, let, know, behave · To what, where: Sultan, majesty · 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 (majesty, expedition), 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

advmodnsubjdetobjobjdetnsubjacl:relclpunctcccasedetoblcasenmodnmod:possnsubjccompobjxcompadvmodadvmodnsubjauxccompobjpunctrootThenADVhePRONinformedVERBtheDETSultanPROPNwhatPRONthoseDETdirectionsNOUNwereAUX,PUNCTandCCONJbyADPtheDETrelationNOUNofADPthisPRONhisPRONexpeditionNOUNletVERBhimPRONknowVERBhowADVwellADVhePRONhadAUXbehavedVERBhimselfPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThenthenADVPronType=Dem3 informedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 informednsubj
3informedinformVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Sultandet
5SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing3 informedobj
6whatwhatPRONPronType=Int3 informedobj
7thosethatDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem8 directionsdet
8directionsdirectionNOUNNumber=Plur9 werensubj
9werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 whatacl:relcl
10,,PUNCT_19 letpunct
11andandCCONJ_19 letcc
12bybyADP_14 relationcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 relationdet
14relationrelationNOUNNumber=Sing19 letobl
15ofofADP_16 thiscase
16thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 relationnmod
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 expeditionnmod:poss
18expeditionexpeditionNOUNNumber=Sing19 letnsubj
19letletVERBVerbForm=Inf3 informedccomp
20himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 letobj
21knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf19 letxcomp
22howhowADVPronType=Int23 welladvmod
23wellwellADVDegree=Pos26 behavedadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 behavednsubj
25hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 behavedaux
26behavedbehaveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part21 knowccomp
27himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes26 behavedobj
28..PUNCT_3 informedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1inform speech: otherpastmajestythe Sultanthentree rules
2letinfinitivemajesty's expeditionmajestyby the relation of thistree rules
3knowinfinitivemajesty not said herevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4behavepast · perfectmajestymajestywell propertytree 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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