The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 20
Prince Ahmed stayed but three days at his father’s court and on the fourth returned to the fairy Perie Banou, who received him with the greater joy, as she did not expect him so soon.
Who acts: Prince Ahmed, fourth, Perie, presence · What happens: stay, return, receive, not expect · To what, where: court, fourth
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ahmed, fourth, Perie, presence), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ahmed | compound |
| 2 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 days | cc |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 court | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 court | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 father | case |
| 11 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stayed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 returned | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 fourth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fourth | det |
| 15 | fourth | fourth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stayed | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 fairy | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fairy | det |
| 19 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 20 | Perie | Perie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fairy | appos |
| 21 | Banou | Banou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Perie | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 received | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 received | nsubj |
| 24 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Perie | acl:relcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 received | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 joy | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 joy | det |
| 28 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 joy | amod |
| 29 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 received | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 expect | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 expect | mark |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 expect | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 expect | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 expect | advmod |
| 35 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 returned | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 expect | obj |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 soon | advmod |
| 38 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 expect | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Prince Ahmed | Ahmed's father's court | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at court=Location | |||
| 2 | return | past | the fourth | to the fairy result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fairy=Result | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | Perie | fourth | with the greater joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | not expect | past · do-support | presence | fourth | soon property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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