The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 24

The crier, who took him for a merchant, replied: “If this price seems so extravagant to you, your amazement will be greater when I tell you I have orders to raise it to forty purses, and not to part with it under.”

Who acts: crier, price, amazement, orders, your · What happens: take, reply, seem, be, tell, have · To what, where: crier, you, orders, price, forty purses · 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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crier, price, amazement, orders), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crier	det
2	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 took	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crier	acl:relcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 took	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 merchant	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 merchant	det
9	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crier	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 seems	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	17 seems	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 price	det
16	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seems	nsubj
17	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	advcl
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 extravagant	advmod
19	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 seems	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 extravagant	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 greater	punct
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 amazement	nmod:poss
24	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 greater	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 greater	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 greater	cop
27	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 seems	xcomp
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 tell	advmod
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 tell	nsubj
30	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 greater	advcl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 have	nsubj
33	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 tell	ccomp
34	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 have	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 raise	mark
36	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 have	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 raise	obj
38	to	to	ADP	_	40 purses	case
39	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 purses	nummod
40	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 raise	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 part	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 part	cc
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 part	advmod
44	to	to	PART	_	45 part	mark
45	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	parataxis
46	with	with	ADP	_	47 it	case
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 part	nmod
48	under	under	ADP	_	45 part	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	45 part	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the crier	crier			for a merchant	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for merchant=Beneficiary
2	reply speech: assert	past	the crier					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seem a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	this price				extravagant property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	future	your amazement				great property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the crier = crier		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	have in a quote	present	the crier = crier	orders				tree rules
7	raise in a quote	to-infinitive	orders not said here	price		forty purses		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to purse=Destination
8	amaze in a quote		your					nom amazement «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 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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