The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 33
The grand vizier immediately sent for her, and as soon as she was brought Schaibar said, at the time he fetched a stroke at her with his iron bar: “Take the reward of thy pernicious counsel, and learn to feign sickness again.”
Who acts: grand vizier, Schaibar · What happens: send, bring, say, fetch, take, learn · To what, where: vizier, stroke, reward, sickness, pernicious counsel · 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 (grand vizier, 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 vizier | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 vizier | amod |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 4 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 said | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 brought | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux:pass |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | advcl |
| 16 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sent | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fetched | punct |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetched | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fetched | nsubj |
| 23 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stroke | det |
| 25 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetched | obj |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fetched | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 bar | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bar | nmod:poss |
| 30 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bar | compound |
| 31 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fetched | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 Take | punct |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Take | punct |
| 34 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 reward | det |
| 36 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Take | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 counsel | case |
| 38 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 39 | pernicious | pernicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 counsel | amod |
| 40 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reward | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 learn | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 learn | cc |
| 43 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 Take | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 feign | mark |
| 45 | feign | feign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 learn | xcomp |
| 46 | sickness | sickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 feign | obj |
| 47 | again | again | ADV | _ | 45 feign | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 Take | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the grand vizier | for execution; immediately property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | vizier | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Schaibar | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fetch | past | Schaibar | a stroke | time | at vizier; with Schaibar's iron bar | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent stroke=Theme at she=Asset | ||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | the reward of thy pernicious counsel | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme | |||||
| 6 | learn in a quote | infinitive | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 7 | feign in a quote | to-infinitive | sickness | again | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sickness=Patient | ||||
| 8 | reward in a quote | thy pernicious counsel | nom reward «event 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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