The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 47

The merchant called him by his name, and, pointing to the Prince, said to him: “Tell that gentleman, who asked me if you were in your right senses, what you mean by crying that ivory perspective glass, which seems not to be worth much, at thirty purses.

Who acts: merchant, crier, that, ivory perspective glass · What happens: call, point, say, tell, ask, be · To what, where: crier, Prince, gentleman, me, right senses · 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 (merchant, crier, that, ivory perspective 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 merchant	det
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obj
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 name	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pointing	punct
11	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 said	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Prince	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Prince	det
14	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 pointing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 pointing	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Tell	punct
21	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 gentleman	det
23	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Tell	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 asked	nsubj
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Tell	advcl
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 asked	iobj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 senses	mark
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 senses	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 senses	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	34 senses	case
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 senses	nmod:poss
33	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 senses	amod
34	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 asked	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 mean	punct
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	38 mean	obj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 mean	nsubj
38	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 senses	acl:relcl
39	by	by	SCONJ	_	40 crying	mark
40	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 mean	xcomp
41	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 glass	nsubj
42	ivory	ivory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 glass	amod
43	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 glass	compound
44	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 crying	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 seems	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 seems	nsubj
47	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 glass	acl:relcl
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	51 worth	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	51 worth	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 worth	cop
51	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 seems	ccomp
52	much	much	ADV	_	51 worth	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 purses	punct
54	at	at	ADP	_	56 purses	case
55	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 purses	nummod
56	purses	purse	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 seems	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	the merchant		crier		by crier's name	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	point	gerund			the Prince			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past			crier			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			that gentleman			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	past			me			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
6	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	crier			your right senses		tree rules
7	mean in a quote	present	crier	your right senses				tree rules
8	cry speech: express not said to happen, in a quote	gerund	crier not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	glass in a quote		that					tree rules
10	seem in a quote	present	ivory perspective glass					vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
11	not is in a quote	to-infinitive	ivory perspective glass not said here				worth property	tree rules
12	name		crier					nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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