The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 44
And if he cries the ivory perspective glass at thirty purses it must be worth as much or more, on some account or other.
Who acts: crier, glass · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: perspective glass, thirty 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, glass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cries | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 cries | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cries | nsubj |
| 4 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 glass | det |
| 6 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perspective | compound |
| 7 | perspective | perspective | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glass | compound |
| 8 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cries | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 purses | case |
| 10 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 purses | nummod |
| 11 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cries | obl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 worth | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 worth | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 worth | cop |
| 15 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cries | ccomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 much | case |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 worth | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 more | cc |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 worth | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 account | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 account | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 account | det |
| 23 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 worth | conj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 other | cc |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 worth | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | crier | the perspective glass | thirty purses | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glass=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | must | glass | as much; worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | glass not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | be | glass not said here | 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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