Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / The Blue Fairy Book / The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fair… / 71

The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 71

The magician, at her arrival, saved the Sultan the trouble to tell her of the success of Prince Ahmed’s journey, which she had heard of before she came, and therefore was prepared with an infallible means, as she pretended.

Who acts: magician, infallible, Prince Ahmed · What happens: save, tell, hear, come, prepare, mean · To what, where: trouble, Sultan, magician, journey · 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 (magician, infallible, Prince Ahmed), 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

detnsubjpunctcasenmod:possconjpunctdetobjdetobjmarkadvcliobjcasedetoblcasecompoundnmod:posscasenmodpunctnsubj:passnsubjauxacl:relcloblmarknsubjadvclpunctccadvmodaux:passparataxismarkdetnsubjadvclpunctmarknsubjccomppunctrootTheDETmagicianNOUN,PUNCTatADPherPRONarrivalNOUN,PUNCTsavedVERBtheDETSultanPROPNtheDETtroubleNOUNtoPARTtellVERBherPRONofADPtheDETsuccessNOUNofADPPrincePROPNAhmedPROPN’sPARTjourneyNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONshePRONhadAUXheardVERBofADPbeforeSCONJshePRONcameVERB,PUNCTandCCONJthereforeADVwasAUXpreparedVERBwithSCONJanDETinfallibleNOUNmeansVERB,PUNCTasSCONJshePRONpretendedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 magiciandet
2magicianmagicianNOUNNumber=Sing8 savednsubj
3,,PUNCT_6 arrivalpunct
4atatADP_6 arrivalcase
5herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 arrivalnmod:poss
6arrivalarrivalNOUNNumber=Sing2 magicianconj
7,,PUNCT_2 magicianpunct
8savedsaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Sultandet
10SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing8 savedobj
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 troubledet
12troubletroubleNOUNNumber=Sing8 savedobj
13totoPART_14 tellmark
14telltellVERBVerbForm=Inf8 savedadvcl
15hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 telliobj
16ofofADP_18 successcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 successdet
18successsuccessNOUNNumber=Sing14 tellobl
19ofofADP_23 journeycase
20PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing21 Ahmedcompound
21AhmedAhmedPROPNNumber=Sing23 journeynmod:poss
22’s'sPART_21 Ahmedcase
23journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing18 successnmod
24,,PUNCT_28 heardpunct
25whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel28 heardnsubj:pass
26sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 heardnsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 heardaux
28heardhearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass23 journeyacl:relcl
29ofofADP_28 heardobl
30beforebeforeSCONJ_32 camemark
31sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 camensubj
32camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 heardadvcl
33,,PUNCT_37 preparedpunct
34andandCCONJ_37 preparedcc
35thereforethereforeADV_37 preparedadvmod
36wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin37 preparedaux:pass
37preparedprepareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 savedparataxis
38withwithSCONJ_41 meansmark
39anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 infallibledet
40infallibleinfallibleNOUNNumber=Sing41 meansnsubj
41meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin37 preparedadvcl
42,,PUNCT_45 pretendedpunct
43asasSCONJ_45 pretendedmark
44sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 pretendednsubj
45pretendedpretendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin41 meansccomp
46..PUNCT_8 savedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1savepastthe magician and magician's arrivalthe troublethe Sultanvn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent sultan=Beneficiary trouble=Theme
2tell speech: assertto-infinitivethe magician and magician's arrival not said heremagicianof the success of Prince Ahmed's journeyvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
3hearpast · perfect · passivePrince Ahmed's journeyvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
4comepastmagicianvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5preparepast · passivetherefore propertyvn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»
6meanpresenta infalliblevn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7pretendpastmagiciantree rules
8arrivemagiciannom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9journeyPrince Ahmednom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/52/71/