The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 29

“These are they, then,” said Schaibar, “who gave him bad,” and as he pronounced these words he killed all the other viziers and flattering favorites of the Sultan who were Prince Ahmed’s enemies.

Who acts: These, porters, Schaibar, flattering favorites · What happens: be, say, give, pronounce, kill · To what, where: porters, Schaibar, words, other viziers, enemies · 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 (These, porters, Schaibar, flattering favorites), 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 said	punct
2	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 they	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 they	cop
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 they	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 they	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 then	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 they	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Schaibar	Schaibar	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 gave	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bad	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 pronounced	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 pronounced	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 pronounced	nsubj
22	pronounced	pronounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pronounced	obj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 killed	nsubj
26	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 words	acl:relcl
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 viziers	det:predet
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 viziers	det
29	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 viziers	amod
30	viziers	vizier	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 killed	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 favorites	cc
32	flattering	flattering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 favorites	amod
33	favorites	favorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 words	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 Sultan	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Sultan	det
36	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 favorites	nmod
37	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 enemies	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 enemies	cop
39	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 Ahmed	compound
40	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 enemies	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Ahmed	case
42	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 favorites	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	These	porters = porter		then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	porters = porter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	give in a quote	past			Schaibar		bad property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	pronounce	past	Schaibar	this words and flattering favorites of the Sultan and Prince Ahmed's enemies				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme
5	kill	past	Schaibar	all other viziers				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Theme
6	is a	past	flattering favorites of the Sultan and Prince Ahmed's enemies	Prince Ahmed's enemies				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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