The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 20

“The Sultan, his father,” replied Paribanou, “has a curiosity to see you, and I desire he may be your guide to the Sultan’s Court.”

Who acts: Sultan · What happens: reply, have, see, desire, be · To what, where: Paribanou, curiosity, you, guide · 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 (Sultan), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sultan	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 father	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 curiosity	det
15	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 has	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 see	mark
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 curiosity	acl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 see	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 desire	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 desire	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 desire	nsubj
22	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 has	conj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 guide	nsubj
24	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 guide	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 guide	cop
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 guide	nmod:poss
27	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 desire	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	32 Court	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Sultan	det
30	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Court	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Sultan	case
32	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 desire	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Sultan	Paribanou		tree rules
2	have in a quote	present		a curiosity		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient
3	see in a quote	to-infinitive		you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
4	desire in a quote	present	the Sultan = sultan		to the Sultan's Court	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	is a in a quote	may	Sultan	your guide		tree rules

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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