The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 45
He will come by presently, and we will call him, and you shall be satisfied; in the meantime sit down on my sofa, and rest yourself.”
Who acts: crier, we, you · What happens: come, call, be, sit down, rest · To what, where: crier, meantime, yourself · 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, we, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | aux |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 presently | case |
| 5 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 call | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 call | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 call | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 call | aux |
| 10 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 call | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 satisfied | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 satisfied | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 satisfied | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 satisfied | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 satisfied | cop |
| 17 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 come | advcl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sit | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 meantime | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 meantime | det |
| 21 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sit | obl |
| 22 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | parataxis |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 sit | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 sofa | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sofa | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sit | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 rest | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rest | cc |
| 29 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 sit | conj |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 rest | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | crier | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by presently=Location | |||||
| 2 | call | future | we | crier | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | you | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit down | infinitive | the meantime | on my sofa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in meantime=Location | ||||
| 5 | rest | infinitive | yourself | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme |
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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