The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 20

“You must also grant that that knowledge would have been of no service without the artificial apple and the tapestry.

Who acts: You · What happens: grant, have

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 grant	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 grant	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	aux
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 grant	advmod
5	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 would	mark
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 knowledge	det
8	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 would	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 grant	parataxis
10	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 would	xcomp
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 have	xcomp
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 service	case
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 service	det
14	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 been	obl
15	without	without	ADP	_	18 apple	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 apple	det
17	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 apple	amod
18	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 service	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tapestry	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tapestry	det
21	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 apple	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grant in a quote	must	You						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	have in a quote	infinitive	You not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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