The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 6
He is made exactly as the Sultan your father has described him, and has no other arms than a bar of iron of five hundred pounds weight, without which he never stirs, and which makes him respected.
Who acts: father, danger · What happens: make, describe, have, not stir, respect · To what, where: danger, other arms
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 (father, danger), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 7 Sultan | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 Sultan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 described | nsubj |
| 10 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 described | aux |
| 11 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 made | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 described | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 has | cc |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 arms | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 arms | amod |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 bar | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bar | det |
| 21 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arms | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 iron | case |
| 23 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bar | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 pounds | case |
| 25 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 hundred | compound |
| 26 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 pounds | nummod |
| 27 | pounds | pound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 weight | compound |
| 28 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 iron | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 stirs | punct |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 stirs | obl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stirs | nsubj |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 stirs | advmod |
| 34 | stirs | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 makes | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 makes | cc |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 makes | nsubj |
| 38 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 stirs | conj |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 makes | obj |
| 40 | respected | respect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 makes | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | danger | as the Sultan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | describe | present · perfect | your father | danger | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | no other arms | than a bar of iron and pounds weight | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not stir | present | father | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | make | present | danger | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | respect | participle | danger not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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