The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 28

All that he could do was to prevent his killing the grand vizier, who sat not far from him, representing to him that he had always given the Sultan his father good advice.

Who acts: Sultan, grand vizier · What happens: do, be, prevent, kill, not sit, represent · To what, where: grand vizier, Sultan

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, grand vizier), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 do	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 do	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 All	xcomp
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 prevent	mark
8	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 was	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 killing	nsubj
10	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 prevent	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vizier	det
12	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 vizier	amod
13	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killing	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 vizier	acl:relcl
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 sat	advmod
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 sat	advmod
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 representing	punct
22	representing	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 killing	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 representing	obl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 given	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 given	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 given	aux
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 given	advmod
29	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 representing	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Sultan	det
31	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 given	obj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 father	nmod:poss
33	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 given	obj
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 advice	amod
35	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 father	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 All	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	do	could	Sultan				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	Sultan not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	prevent	to-infinitive	Sultan not said here				vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality
4	kill	gerund	Sultan	the grand vizier			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Theme
5	not sit	past	the grand vizier			from Sultan; far property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	represent	gerund	Sultan not said here		Sultan		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot to he=Attribute
7	give	past · perfect · passive		Sultan		always property	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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