The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 50
You shall judge yourself whether I am or no, when I have told you its property and I hope you will value it at as high a price as those I have showed it to already, who had as bad an opinion of me as you.
Who acts: You, I, those · What happens: judge, tell, hope, value, have, show · To what, where: yourself, I, property, high price, bad opinion, me · 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 (You, I, those), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 judge | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | aux |
| 3 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 judge | obj |
| 5 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 told | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux:pass |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 9 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 14 told | discourse |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 told | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 told | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | aux |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 judge | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 property | nmod:poss |
| 17 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | iobj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hope | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 hope | nsubj |
| 20 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 judge | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 value | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 value | aux |
| 23 | value | value | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hope | ccomp |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 value | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 price | case |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 high | advmod |
| 27 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 price | amod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 price | det |
| 29 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 value | obl |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 those | case |
| 31 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 showed | nsubj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 those | acl:relcl |
| 34 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 value | parataxis |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 showed | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 already | case |
| 37 | already | already | ADV | _ | 34 showed | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 had | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 showed | conj |
| 41 | as | as | ADV | _ | 42 bad | advmod |
| 42 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 opinion | amod |
| 43 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 opinion | det |
| 44 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 had | obj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 opinion | nmod |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 you | case |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 had | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 judge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | shall | You | yourself | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent yourself=Value | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect · passive | I | glass's property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | value | future | you | property | a high price | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme at price=Value | |||
| 5 | have | present | I | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | show | past | those | property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to already=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | have | past | a bad opinion of me | as you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient | ||||
| 8 | opine | me | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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