The Blue Fairy Book, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, sentence 83

Ought I not to bestow the Princess on one who values her at such a price?”

Who acts: I, one · What happens: not bestow, value · To what, where: Princess, price

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, one), 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	Ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 bestow	aux
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 bestow	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 bestow	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 bestow	mark
5	bestow	bestow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Princess	det
7	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bestow	obj
8	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 values	mark
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 values	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 values	nsubj
11	values	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bestow	advcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 values	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 price	case
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 price	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 price	det
16	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 values	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bestow	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 bestow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bestow	ought	I	the Princess					tree rules
2	value	present	one	Princess		such price			vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent she=Theme at price=Value

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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