The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 14
Schaibar, as he came forward, looked at the Prince earnestly enough to have chilled his blood in his veins, and asked Paribanou, when he first accosted her, who that man was.
Who acts: Schaibar · What happens: come forward, look, chill, ask, accost, be · To what, where: Schaibar, blood, veins, Paribanou
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 (Schaibar), 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 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Schaibar | acl:relcl |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Schaibar | punct |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Prince | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 8 looked | advmod |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 earnestly | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 chilled | mark |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 chilled | aux |
| 16 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 looked | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blood | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 chilled | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 veins | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 veins | nmod:poss |
| 21 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 chilled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | parataxis |
| 25 | Paribanou | Paribanou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 accosted | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 accosted | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 accosted | nsubj |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 accosted | advmod |
| 30 | accosted | accost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 asked | parataxis |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 accosted | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 was | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 was | nsubj |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 man | det |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 was | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 accosted | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come forward | past | Schaibar | Schaibar not said here | forward property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location schaibar=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | Schaibar | at the Prince; earnestly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chill | to-infinitive · perfect | Schaibar not said here | Schaibar's blood | Schaibar's veins | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blood=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Paribanou | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent paribanou=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | accost | past | Schaibar | Paribanou | first property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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