The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 1

The next day the Prince returned to his dear Paribanou, to whom he told his father’s new demand, which, he said, he looked upon to be a thing more impossible than the two first; “for,” added he, “I cannot imagine there can be such a man in the world; without doubt, he has a mind to try whether or no I am so silly as to go about it, or he has a design on my ruin.

Who acts: Prince, father, my · What happens: return, tell, say, look, be, add · To what, where: dear Paribanou, new demand, Prince, man, world, mind · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, father, my), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 returned	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 returned	nsubj
6	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 Paribanou	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Paribanou	nmod:poss
9	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Paribanou	amod
10	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 returned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whom	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 told	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 demand	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 demand	amod
20	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 demand	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 said	ccomp
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 thing	case
30	to	to	PART	_	33 thing	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 thing	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thing	det
33	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 looked	obl
34	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	35 impossible	advmod
35	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 looked	advcl
36	than	than	ADP	_	38 two	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 two	det
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 impossible	obl
39	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	38 two	advmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 added	punct
41	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 for	punct
42	for	for	SCONJ	_	45 added	mark
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 for	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	42 for	punct
45	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	conj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 added	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 imagine	punct
48	“	"	PUNCT	_	52 imagine	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 imagine	nsubj
50	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 imagine	aux
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	52 imagine	advmod
52	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 added	conj
53	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 imagine	advmod
54	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 man	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 man	cop
56	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	58 man	det:predet
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 man	det
58	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 imagine	conj
59	in	in	ADP	_	61 world	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 world	det
61	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 man	nmod
62	;	;	PUNCT	_	67 has	punct
63	without	without	ADP	_	64 doubt	case
64	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 has	obl
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 doubt	punct
66	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 has	nsubj
67	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 returned	parataxis
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 mind	det
69	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 has	obj
70	to	to	PART	_	71 try	mark
71	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	69 mind	acl
72	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	78 silly	mark
73	or	or	CCONJ	_	72 whether	fixed
74	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	78 silly	discourse
75	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	78 silly	nsubj
76	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	78 silly	cop
77	so	so	ADV	_	78 silly	advmod
78	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 try	advcl
79	as	as	SCONJ	_	81 go	mark
80	to	to	PART	_	81 go	mark
81	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	78 silly	advcl
82	about	about	ADP	_	83 it	case
83	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	81 go	obl
84	,	,	PUNCT	_	87 has	punct
85	or	or	CCONJ	_	87 has	cc
86	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	87 has	nsubj
87	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	67 has	conj
88	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	89 design	det
89	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	87 has	obj
90	on	on	ADP	_	92 ruin	case
91	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	92 ruin	nmod:poss
92	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	89 design	nmod
93	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Prince		Prince's dear Paribanou		day		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	Prince						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Prince	Prince's father's new demand					tree rules
4	look	past	Prince						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is	to-infinitive						upon a thing	tree rules
6	add speech: assert	past	Prince not said here	Prince					vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	not imagine in a quote	can	Prince			there			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
8	is a in a quote	can	Prince not said here	such man		the world			tree rules
9	have in a quote	present	Prince	a mind				without doubt	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient
10	try in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	a mind not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
11	is in a quote	present	Prince					silly property	tree rules
12	go in a quote	to-infinitive	Prince not said here					about mind	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about it=Location
13	have in a quote	present	Prince	a design		my ruin			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Patient
14	demand		Prince's father						nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent
15	ruin in a quote		my						nom ruin «state 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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