The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 18
At these words, Schaibar, looking on Prince Ahmed favorably, said: “Is there anything else, sister, wherein I can serve him?
Who acts: Schaibar, anything, I · What happens: look, say, be, serve · To what, where: words, Schaibar · 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 (Schaibar, anything, I), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 words | case |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 said | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Schaibar | punct |
| 5 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 words | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Schaibar | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Ahmed | case |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ahmed | compound |
| 10 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | favorably | favorably | ADV | _ | 7 looking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Is | punct |
| 16 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 Is | expl |
| 18 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 Is | nsubj |
| 19 | else | else | ADV | _ | 18 anything | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sister | punct |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 anything | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 serve | punct |
| 23 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 serve | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 serve | nsubj |
| 25 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 serve | aux |
| 26 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 anything | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 serve | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Schaibar not said here | on Prince Ahmed; favorably property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on ahmed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | can | I | Schaibar | wherein property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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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