The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 16
His name is Ahmed; he is son to the Sultan of the Indies.
Who acts: name, Schaibar · What happens: be, name · To what, where: Ahmed, son
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 (name, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ahmed | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ahmed | cop |
| 4 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ahmed | appos |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Sultan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sultan | det |
| 11 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Indies | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Indies | det |
| 14 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 Sultan | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ahmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Schaibar's name | Ahmed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Schaibar | son | to the Sultan of the Indies | tree rules | |||
| 3 | name | Schaibar | nom name «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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