The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 28

“If the tapestry,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you assign it, I shall not think forty purses too much, but shall make you a present besides.”

Who acts: crier, virtue, present · What happens: say, have, assign, not think, make, beside · To what, where: crier, satisfaction, 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, virtue, present), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 tapestry	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tapestry	det
4	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tapestry	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tapestry	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 crier	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crier	det
11	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 virtue	det
16	virtue	virtue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 assign	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 assign	nsubj
18	assign	assign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 has	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 assign	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 think	advmod
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 assign	conj
25	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 purses	nummod
26	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 think	obj
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 much	advmod
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 think	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 assign	conj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 make	obj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 present	det
35	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 besides	nsubj
36	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 make	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	crier		the crier	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present				tree rules
3	assign in a quote	infinitive	the virtue	satisfaction		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	not think speech: other in a quote	shall	crier	forty purses		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purse=Theme
5	make in a quote	shall	the virtue not said here	the crier = crier		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
6	beside in a quote	present	a present			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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