The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 48
I should be very much amazed myself if I did not know you.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, not know · To what, where: you
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 amazed | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 amazed | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 amazed | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 amazed | advmod |
| 6 | amazed | amaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 amazed | obj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 amazed | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 amazed | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 amazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should | I | amaze property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know a condition, not said to happen | past · do-support | I | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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