The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 8

And, as you know I am very curious, and delight in everything that’s singular, I promise my niece in marriage to him that shall bring me the most extraordinary rarity; and for the purchase of the rarity you shall go in search after, and the expense of traveling, I will give you every one a sum of money.”

Who acts: you, I, expense · What happens: know, be, promise, bring, go, give · To what, where: delight, niece, marriage, extraordinary rarity, me, search · 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, expense), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 know	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 know	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 know	nsubj
5	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 curious	nsubj
7	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 curious	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 curious	advmod
9	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 know	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 delight	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 delight	cc
12	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 know	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 everything	case
14	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	12 delight	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 singular	nsubj
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 singular	cop
17	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 everything	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 promise	nsubj
20	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 know	conj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 niece	nmod:poss
22	niece	niece	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promise	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 marriage	case
24	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promise	obl
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promise	obl
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 bring	mark
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 bring	aux
29	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 promise	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 bring	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rarity	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 extraordinary	advmod
33	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rarity	amod
34	rarity	rarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 bring	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 go	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 go	cc
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 purchase	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 purchase	det
39	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 rarity	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rarity	det
42	rarity	rarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 purchase	nmod
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 go	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 go	aux
45	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 know	parataxis
46	in	in	ADP	_	47 search	case
47	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 go	obl
48	after	after	ADV	_	45 go	advmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 give	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 give	cc
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 expense	det
52	expense	expense	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 give	nsubj
53	of	of	ADP	_	54 traveling	case
54	traveling	traveling	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 expense	nmod
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 expense	punct
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 give	nsubj
57	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 give	aux
58	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 go	conj
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	58 give	iobj
60	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	61 one	det
61	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 give	obj
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 sum	det
63	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 give	obj
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 money	case
65	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 sum	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct
67	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	you	delight in everything				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	I				curious property	tree rules
3	is	present					singular property	tree rules
4	promise speech: promise	present	I		my niece	marriage	to sultan	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent niece=Theme to he=Goal
5	bring	shall	I not said here	the extraordinary rarity	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rarity=Theme
6	go	shall	you			search	for the purchase of the rarity; after property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for purchase=Theme in search=Location
7	give	future	the expense of traveling	every one	you			tree rules
8	purchase			the rarity				nom purchase «act transitive»: of=patient
9	sum			money				nom sum «possession 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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