The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 55

Prince Ali wanted no other proof to be persuaded that this perspective glass was the most valuable thing in the world, and believed that if he should neglect to purchase it he should never meet again with such another rarity.

Who acts: Prince, perspective glass, sir · What happens: want, persuade, be, believe, neglect, not purchase · To what, where: other proof, valuable thing, world, glass

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 (Prince, perspective glass, sir), 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	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Prince	flat
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 proof	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proof	amod
6	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	9 persuaded	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 persuaded	aux:pass
9	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 proof	acl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 thing	mark
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 glass	det
12	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 glass	compound
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thing	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 thing	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 valuable	advmod
17	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persuaded	advcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 world	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 world	det
21	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thing	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 believed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 believed	cc
24	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 neglect	mark
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 neglect	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 neglect	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 neglect	aux
29	neglect	neglect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 believed	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 purchase	mark
31	purchase	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 neglect	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 purchase	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 meet	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 meet	aux
35	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	36 meet	advmod
36	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 purchase	conj
37	again	again	ADV	_	36 meet	advmod
38	with	with	ADP	_	41 rarity	case
39	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rarity	amod
40	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	41 rarity	det
41	rarity	rarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 meet	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Prince	no other proof				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme
2	persuade	to-infinitive · passive	Prince not said here	no other proof not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»
3	is a	past	this perspective glass	the valuable thing	the world			tree rules
4	believe	past	Prince not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	neglect a condition, not said to happen	should	sir					vn neglect-75.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	not purchase	to-infinitive	sir not said here	glass				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme
7	not meet	should	sir			again	with another such rarity	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rarity=Co-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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