The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 70
When he had done the Sultan, who showed outwardly all the demonstrations of great joy, but secretly became more jealous, retired into an inward apartment, where he sent for the magician.
Who acts: majesty, Sultan · What happens: do, show, become, retire, send, demonstrate · To what, where: Sultan, demonstrations, inward apartment, great joy
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, Sultan), 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 done | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Sultan | det |
| 6 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Sultan | acl:relcl |
| 10 | outwardly | outwardly | ADV | _ | 11 all | advmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 demonstrations | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 demonstrations | det |
| 13 | demonstrations | demonstration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 showed | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 joy | case |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 joy | amod |
| 16 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 demonstrations | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 19 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 20 became | advmod |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 showed | conj |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 jealous | advmod |
| 22 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 retired | punct |
| 24 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 jealous | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 apartment | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 apartment | det |
| 27 | inward | inward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 apartment | amod |
| 28 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 retired | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sent | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 sent | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 sent | nsubj |
| 32 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 apartment | acl:relcl |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 magician | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 magician | det |
| 35 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sent | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · perfect | majesty | the Sultan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the Sultan | all demonstrations of great joy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent demonstration=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the Sultan not said here | jealous, secretly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | retire | participle | the Sultan not said here | a inward apartment | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | send | past | majesty | for the magician | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | demonstrate | great joy | nom demonstration «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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