The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 34
After this he said: “This is not yet enough; I will use the whole town after the same manner if they do not immediately acknowledge Prince Ahmed, my brother-in-law, for their Sultan and the Sultan of the Indies.”
Who acts: Schaibar, This, magician · What happens: say, not be, use, not acknowledge · To what, where: whole town, Prince Ahmed, law · 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 (Schaibar, This, magician), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 enough | punct |
| 7 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 enough | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 enough | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 enough | advmod |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 enough | advmod |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 use | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 use | aux |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 town | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 town | amod |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 manner | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 manner | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 manner | amod |
| 22 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 acknowledge | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 acknowledge | nsubj |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 acknowledge | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 acknowledge | advmod |
| 27 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 28 acknowledge | advmod |
| 28 | acknowledge | acknowledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 use | advcl |
| 29 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Ahmed | compound |
| 30 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 acknowledge | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 law | punct |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brother | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 law | nsubj |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 law | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 law | case |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 in | punct |
| 37 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Ahmed | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Sultan | punct |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 Sultan | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 Sultan | nmod:poss |
| 41 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 acknowledge | parataxis |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 Sultan | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Sultan | det |
| 44 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Sultan | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Indies | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Indies | det |
| 47 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 44 Sultan | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Schaibar | after this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | This | yet | enough property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | use in a quote | future | Schaibar | the whole town | after the same manner | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Patient | |||
| 4 | not acknowledge a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | magician | Prince Ahmed | law | immediately property | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Topic |
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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