The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 13
If Prince Ahmed had not known that Schaibar was Paribanou’s brother, he would not have been able to have looked at him without fear, but, knowing first who he was, he stood by the Fairy without the least concern.
Who acts: Ahmed · What happens: not know, be, not be, look, know, stand · To what, where: Prince Ahmed · 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 (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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 known | mark |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahmed | compound |
| 3 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 known | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 known | advmod |
| 6 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 brother | mark |
| 8 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Paribanou | compound |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Paribanou | cop |
| 10 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Paribanou | case |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 known | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 able | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 able | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 able | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 able | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 able | cop |
| 19 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 known | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 looked | mark |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 looked | aux |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 able | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | obl |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 26 fear | case |
| 26 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 stood | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 stood | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knowing | punct |
| 30 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 stood | advcl |
| 31 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 knowing | advmod |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 knowing | obj |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 was | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 who | acl:relcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knowing | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 stood | nsubj |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 known | conj |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 Fairy | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Fairy | det |
| 40 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obl |
| 41 | without | without | ADP | _ | 44 concern | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 concern | det |
| 43 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 44 concern | amod |
| 44 | concern | concern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stood | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · perfect · passive | Prince Ahmed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | 's Schaibar Paribanou | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not is | would · perfect | Ahmed | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive · perfect | Ahmed not said here | at Ahmed; without fear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | gerund | Ahmed not said here | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer who=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | Ahmed | by the Fairy; without the least concern | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fairy=Location |
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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