The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 19

Your perspective glass, Prince Ali, informed you and your brothers that you were like to lose the Princess your cousin, and there you must own a great obligation.

Who acts: perspective glass, you · What happens: inform, be, lose, own · To what, where: you, Princess cousin, great obligation · 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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perspective glass, you), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 glass	nmod:poss
2	perspective	perspective	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glass	compound
3	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 informed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Ali	punct
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Ali	nmod:desc
6	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 glass	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 glass	punct
8	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 informed	iobj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 brothers	cc
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 you	conj
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 like	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 like	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 like	cop
16	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 informed	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 lose	mark
18	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 like	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cousin	det
20	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 cousin	compound
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cousin	nmod:poss
22	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lose	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 own	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 own	cc
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 own	advmod
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 own	nsubj
27	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 own	aux
28	own	own	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 informed	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 obligation	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 obligation	amod
31	obligation	obligation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 own	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 informed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	Your perspective glass		you			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	is	past	you				like property	tree rules
3	lose not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	your Princess cousin				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cousin=Eventuality
4	own	must	you	a great obligation		there		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot obligation=Theme

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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