The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 48

Prince Ahmed, who had believed that the sultan his father would be satisfied with so remarkable and useful a tent as the one he had brought, and that he would not impose any new task upon him which might hazard the fairy’s displeasure, was thunderstruck at this new request.

Who acts: sultan, father, new task, fairy · What happens: believe, be, bring, not impose, hazard, thunderstruck · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, one, new task, displeasure, new request · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sultan, father, new task, fairy), 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	49 thunderstruck	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 believed	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 believed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 believed	aux
6	believed	believe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Ahmed	acl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 satisfied	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sultan	det
9	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 satisfied	nsubj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 satisfied	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 satisfied	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 satisfied	cop
14	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 believed	ccomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	21 tent	case
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 remarkable	advmod
17	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tent	amod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 useful	cc
19	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 remarkable	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tent	det
21	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 satisfied	obl
22	as	as	ADP	_	24 one	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 one	det
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tent	nmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 brought	aux
27	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 one	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 impose	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 impose	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 impose	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 impose	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 impose	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 impose	advmod
34	impose	impose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 believed	parataxis
35	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	37 task	det
36	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 task	amod
37	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 impose	obj
38	upon	upon	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 task	nmod
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 hazard	nsubj
41	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 hazard	aux
42	hazard	hazard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 task	acl:relcl
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 fairy	det
44	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 displeasure	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 fairy	case
46	displeasure	displeasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 hazard	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ahmed	punct
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 thunderstruck	aux:pass
49	thunderstruck	thunderstruck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
50	at	at	ADP	_	53 request	case
51	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 request	det
52	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 request	amod
53	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 thunderstruck	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	49 thunderstruck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	believe	past · perfect · passive		Prince Ahmed			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	is	would	the sultan			with a remarkable tent as the one; sultan's father nsubj; satisfied property	tree rules
3	bring	past · perfect	father	the one not said here			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
4	not impose	would	father	any new task		upon sultan	vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
5	hazard	might	any new task	the fairy's displeasure			vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent displeasure=Pivot
6	thunderstruck	past · passive		Prince Ahmed	this new request		tree rules
7	displease		the fairy				nom displeasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 48

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 48