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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 29

“Sir,” replied the crier, “I have told you the truth; and it is an easy matter to convince you of it, as soon as you have made the bargain for forty purses, on condition I show you the experiment.

Who acts: crier, it, you · What happens: reply, tell, be, convince, make, show · To what, where: truth, you, easy matter, bargain, experiment, condition · 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, it, you), 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

punctccomppunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctnsubjauxadvcliobjdetobjpunctccnsubjcopdetamodparataxismarkacliobjcaseoblpunctadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvcldetobjcasenummodoblpunctcaseoblnsubjconjiobjdetobjpunctroot“PUNCTSirNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETcrierNOUN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONhaveAUXtoldVERByouPRONtheDETtruthNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJitPRONisAUXanDETeasyADJmatterNOUNtoPARTconvinceVERByouPRONofADPitPRON,PUNCTasADVsoonADVasSCONJyouPRONhaveAUXmadeVERBtheDETbargainNOUNforADPfortyNUMpursesNOUN,PUNCTonADPconditionNOUNIPRONshowVERByouPRONtheDETexperimentNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
2SirsirNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedccomp
3,,PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Sirpunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 crierdet
7criercrierNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_12 toldpunct
9“"PUNCT_12 toldpunct
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 toldnsubj
11havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 toldaux
12toldtellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part5 repliedadvcl
13youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs12 toldiobj
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 truthdet
15truthtruthNOUNNumber=Sing12 toldobj
16;;PUNCT_22 matterpunct
17andandCCONJ_22 mattercc
18ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 matternsubj
19isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 mattercop
20anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 matterdet
21easyeasyADJDegree=Pos22 matteramod
22mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedparataxis
23totoPART_24 convincemark
24convinceconvinceVERBVerbForm=Inf22 matteracl
25youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs24 convinceiobj
26ofofADP_27 itcase
27ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 convinceobl
28,,PUNCT_30 soonpunct
29asasADV_30 soonadvmod
30soonsoonADVDegree=Pos24 convinceadvmod
31asasSCONJ_34 mademark
32youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs34 madensubj
33havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 madeaux
34mademakeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part30 soonadvcl
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 bargaindet
36bargainbargainNOUNNumber=Sing34 madeobj
37forforADP_39 pursescase
38fortyfortyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card39 pursesnummod
39pursespurseNOUNNumber=Plur34 madeobl
40,,PUNCT_44 showpunct
41ononADP_42 conditioncase
42conditionconditionNOUNNumber=Sing44 showobl
43IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs44 shownsubj
44showshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin34 madeconj
45youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs44 showiobj
46thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art47 experimentdet
47experimentexperimentNOUNNumber=Sing44 showobj
48..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe criervn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2tell speech: assert in a quotepresent · perfectthe crier = crierthe truthyouvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient truth=Topic
3is a in a quotepresentita easy mattertree rules
4convince in a quoteto-infinitivethe crier not said hereyouof matter; soon propertyvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
5make in a quotepresent · perfectyouthe bargainfor forty pursesvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bargain=Product for purse=Asset
6show in a quotepresentthe crier = crierthe experimentyouconditionvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient experiment=Topic

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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