The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 23
The next morning, after Schaibar had been informed of the affair, he and Prince Ahmed set out for the Sultan’s Court.
Who acts: Schaibar · What happens: inform, set out · To what, where: next morning
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 informed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 Schaibar | case |
| 6 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 informed | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 informed | aux:pass |
| 9 | informed | inform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 affair | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 affair | det |
| 12 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 informed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 set | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 set | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Prince | cc |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 he | conj |
| 17 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Prince | flat |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 informed | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Court | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sultan | det |
| 22 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Court | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Sultan | case |
| 24 | Court | Court | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 set | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 informed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inform speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the next morning after Schaibar | of the affair | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of affair=Topic | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | Schaibar | for the Sultan's Court | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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