The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 8
“What! my Queen,” replied Prince Ahmed, “do you say Schaibar is your brother?
Who acts: Queen, you, Schaibar · What happens: reply, say, be · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, brother · 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 (Queen, you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 replied | obj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Queen | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Queen | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Queen | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Queen | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ahmed | compound |
| 10 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 16 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 brother | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 brother | cop |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 brother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 say | ccomp |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | my Queen | Prince Ahmed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Schaibar | your brother | 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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