The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 42
If he is not, I am very much deceived.”
Who acts: crier, I · What happens: not be, deceive
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, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 is | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deceived | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 is | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 deceived | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 deceived | aux |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 much | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 deceived | advmod |
| 10 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 deceived | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 deceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be a condition, not said to happen | present | crier | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | deceive | present | I | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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