The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 22

“Brother,” replied Paribanou, “it is too late to go to-day, therefore stay till to-morrow morning; and in the meantime I’ll inform you of all that has passed between the Sultan of the Indies and Prince Ahmed since our marriage.”

Who acts: Brother, it, that, our · What happens: reply, be, go, stay, inform, pass · To what, where: you, meantime, Sultan · 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 (Brother, it, that, our), 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	_	2 Brother	punct
2	Brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Brother	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Brother	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Paribanou	Paribanou	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 late	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 late	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 late	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 late	cop
11	too	too	ADV	_	12 late	advmod
12	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 late	csubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stay	punct
19	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	20 stay	advmod
20	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
21	till	till	ADP	_	25 morning	case
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 morning	case
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 to	punct
24	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 morning	compound
25	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stay	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 inform	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 inform	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 meantime	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 meantime	det
30	meantime	meantime	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 inform	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 inform	nsubj
32	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 inform	aux
33	inform	inform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 replied	parataxis
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 inform	iobj
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	39 passed	mark
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 passed	det:predet
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 passed	nsubj
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 passed	aux
39	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 inform	advcl
40	between	between	ADP	_	42 Sultan	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Sultan	det
42	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 passed	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 Indies	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 Indies	det
45	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	42 Sultan	nmod
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 Ahmed	cc
47	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 Ahmed	compound
48	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 Sultan	conj
49	since	since	ADP	_	51 marriage	case
50	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 marriage	nmod:poss
51	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 passed	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 inform	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 inform	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Brother					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	it				late property	tree rules
3	go in a quote	to-infinitive				day		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stay in a quote	infinitive				morning	therefore property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	inform speech: other in a quote	future	Brother	you	the meantime			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	pass in a quote	present · perfect	that		the Sultan of the Indies and Prince Ahmed	since our marriage		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between sultan=Location
7	marry in a quote		our					nom marriage «state 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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