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

“Sir,” replied the crier, “the thing is known and averred by the whole city of Samarcand; but, without going any further, ask all these merchants you see here, and hear what they say.

Who acts: crier, you, merchants · What happens: reply, know, aver, go, ask, see · To what, where: thing, merchants · 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 (crier, you, merchants), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
2	Sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sir	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crier	det
7	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 known	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 known	nsubj:pass
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 known	aux:pass
13	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 replied	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 averred	cc
15	averred	aver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 known	conj
16	by	by	ADP	_	19 city	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 city	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 city	amod
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 averred	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Samarcand	case
21	Samarcand	Samarcand	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 city	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 ask	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 ask	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 but	punct
25	without	without	SCONJ	_	26 going	mark
26	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 ask	advcl
27	any	any	ADV	_	28 further	advmod
28	further	further	ADV	_	26 going	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 going	punct
30	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 merchants	det:predet
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 merchants	det
33	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ask	obj
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 see	nsubj
35	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 merchants	acl:relcl
36	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 see	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hear	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 hear	cc
39	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	30 ask	conj
40	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 say	obj
41	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
42	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 hear	ccomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the crier				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know in a quote	present · passive		the thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
3	aver in a quote	participle				by the whole city of Samarcand	tree rules
4	go in a quote	gerund				further property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive		all merchants			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient
6	see in a quote	present	you	all merchants not said here	here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer merchant=Stimulus
7	hear in a quote	infinitive					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	say speech: assert in a quote	present	merchants = merchant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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