The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 37
As for Prince Ali and Princess Nouronnihar, as they had no hand in the conspiracy against Prince Ahmed and knew nothing of any, Prince Ahmed assigned them a considerable province, with its capital, where they spent the rest of their lives.
Who acts: Ali, Prince Ahmed · What happens: have, know, assign, spend · To what, where: hand, conspiracy, nothing, Ali, rest
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 (Ali, 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 4 Ali | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Princess | cc |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ali | conj |
| 7 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 conspiracy | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 conspiracy | det |
| 16 | conspiracy | conspiracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 Ahmed | case |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ahmed | compound |
| 19 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 conspiracy | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knew | cc |
| 21 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 21 knew | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 any | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 nothing | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 assigned | punct |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Ahmed | compound |
| 27 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 assigned | nsubj |
| 28 | assigned | assign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 had | conj |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 assigned | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 province | det |
| 31 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 province | amod |
| 32 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 assigned | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 capital | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 capital | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 capital | nmod:poss |
| 36 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 assigned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 spent | punct |
| 38 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 spent | advmod |
| 39 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 spent | nsubj |
| 40 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 capital | acl:relcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 rest | det |
| 42 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 spent | obj |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 lives | case |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 lives | nmod:poss |
| 45 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 rest | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Ali | no hand | the conspiracy against Prince Ahmed | as Ali Prince and Princess | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||
| 2 | know | past | Ali not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | assign | past | Prince Ahmed | Ali | with province's capital | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent they=Goal province=Theme | |||
| 4 | spend | past | Ali | the rest of Ali's lives | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Asset |
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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