The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 27

The Sultan, instead of answering him, clapped his hands before his eyes to avoid the sight of so terrible an object; at which uncivil and rude reception Schaibar was so much provoked, after he had given him the trouble to come so far, that he instantly lifted up his iron bar and killed him before Prince Ahmed could intercede in his behalf.

Who acts: Sultan, Prince Ahmed · What happens: answer, clap, avoid, provoke, give, come · To what, where: Sultan, hands, sight, uncivil, Schaibar, iron bar

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, Prince Ahmed), 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	2 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 clapped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 answering	punct
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 answering	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Sultan	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answering	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sultan	punct
9	clapped	clap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hands	nmod:poss
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clapped	obj
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 eyes	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 clapped	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 avoid	mark
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 clapped	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sight	det
18	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 avoid	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 object	case
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 terrible	advmod
21	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 object	amod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 object	det
23	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sight	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 provoked	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 uncivil	case
26	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	27 uncivil	det
27	uncivil	uncivil	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 provoked	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 reception	cc
29	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 reception	amod
30	reception	reception	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uncivil	conj
31	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 reception	appos
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 provoked	aux:pass
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	35 provoked	advmod
35	provoked	provoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 clapped	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 given	punct
37	after	after	SCONJ	_	40 given	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 given	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 given	aux
40	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 provoked	advcl
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 given	iobj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 trouble	det
43	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 given	obj
44	to	to	PART	_	45 come	mark
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 trouble	acl
46	so	so	ADV	_	47 far	advmod
47	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 come	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 lifted	punct
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 lifted	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 lifted	nsubj
51	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	52 lifted	advmod
52	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 provoked	parataxis
53	up	up	ADP	_	52 lifted	compound:prt
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 bar	nmod:poss
55	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 bar	compound
56	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 lifted	obj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 killed	cc
58	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 lifted	conj
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 killed	obj
60	before	before	SCONJ	_	64 intercede	mark
61	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 Ahmed	compound
62	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 intercede	nsubj
63	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 intercede	aux
64	intercede	intercede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 killed	advcl
65	in	in	ADP	_	67 behalf	case
66	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	67 behalf	nmod:poss
67	behalf	behalf	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 intercede	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 clapped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	gerund	the Sultan not said here		Sultan				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	clap	past	the Sultan	Sultan's hands			before Sultan's eyes		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
3	avoid	to-infinitive	the Sultan not said here	the sight of a terrible object					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent sight=Location
4	provoke	past · passive	the Sultan not said here			which uncivil and rude reception			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	give	past · perfect · passive		Sultan	Schaibar				tree rules
6	come	to-infinitive						far property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lift up	past	Sultan	Sultan's iron bar				instantly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bar=Theme
8	kill	past	Sultan not said here	Schaibar					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	intercede	could	Prince Ahmed			Sultan's behalf			tree rules
10	sight			a terrible object					nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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