The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 25

“Certainly,” answered Prince Houssain, “it must have something very extraordinary in it, which I know nothing of.”

Who acts: Prince, price · What happens: answer, have, know · To what, where: something, nothing · 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 (Prince, price), 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	_	5 answered	punct
2	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 answered	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Certainly	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
7	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Prince	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 have	aux
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	ccomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 have	obj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 extraordinary	advmod
15	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 something	amod
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 extraordinary	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 know	obj
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 something	parataxis
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 know	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 nothing	fixed
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Prince		certainly property	tree rules
2	have in a quote	must	price	something		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
3	know in a quote	present	Prince	nothing		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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