The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 11
Some moments after the Fairy said to Prince Ahmed: “See, there comes my brother.”
Who acts: moments · What happens: say, see, come · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, brother · 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 (moments), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 moments | det |
| 2 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 Fairy | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fairy | det |
| 5 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moments | nmod |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Ahmed | case |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Ahmed | compound |
| 9 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 12 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 comes | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 comes | expl |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 See | ccomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | some moments after the Fairy | Prince Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ahmed=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | my brother | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location brother=Theme |
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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