The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 74
Prince Ahmed, who did not believe that there was such a man in the world as his father described, would gladly have excused himself; but the Sultan persisted in his demand, and told him the Fairy could do more incredible things.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, man, father, Sultan, Fairy · What happens: not believe, be, describe, excuse, persist, tell · To what, where: man, demand, incredible things · 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 (Prince Ahmed, man, father, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 believe | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 believe | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 believe | advmod |
| 7 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Ahmed | parataxis |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 was | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 man | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 described | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 described | nsubj |
| 20 | described | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 man | acl:relcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 excused | punct |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 excused | aux |
| 23 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 25 excused | advmod |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 excused | aux |
| 25 | excused | excuse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 man | acl |
| 26 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 excused | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 persisted | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 persisted | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sultan | det |
| 30 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 persisted | nsubj |
| 31 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 believe | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 demand | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 demand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 persisted | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 told | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 told | cc |
| 37 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 persisted | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 told | iobj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Fairy | det |
| 40 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 do | nsubj |
| 41 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 do | aux |
| 42 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 told | ccomp |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 incredible | advmod |
| 44 | incredible | incredible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 things | amod |
| 45 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 do | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ahmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | Prince Ahmed | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | such man in the world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | describe | past | man's father | such man in the world not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 4 | excuse | would · perfect | such man in the world not said here | man | gladly property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 5 | persist | past | the Sultan | man's demand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in demand=Location | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | the Sultan not said here | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | do | could | the Fairy | incredible things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | demand | man | nom demand «communication 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.
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