The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 21

And lastly, Prince Houssain, the Princess would be very ungrateful if she should not show her acknowledgment of the service of your tapestry, which was so necessary a means toward her cure.

Who acts: Princess, tapestry, a · What happens: be, not show, mean, acknowledge, service · To what, where: acknowledgment, service, tapestry

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 (Princess, tapestry, a), 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	_	2 lastly	cc
2	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Houssain	punct
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Houssain	nmod:desc
5	Houssain	Houssain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 lastly	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ungrateful	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Princess	det
8	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ungrateful	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ungrateful	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ungrateful	cop
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 ungrateful	advmod
12	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Houssain	parataxis
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 show	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 show	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 show	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 show	advmod
17	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ungrateful	advcl
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 acknowledgment	nmod:poss
19	acknowledgment	acknowledgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 show	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 service	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 service	det
22	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 acknowledgment	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 tapestry	case
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tapestry	nmod:poss
25	tapestry	tapestry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 service	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 necessary	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 necessary	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 necessary	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 necessary	advmod
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tapestry	acl:relcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 means	nsubj
32	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 necessary	acl:relcl
33	toward	toward	ADP	_	35 cure	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 cure	nmod:poss
35	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 means	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lastly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	the Princess		ungrateful property	tree rules
2	not show a condition, not said to happen	should	Princess	Princess's acknowledgment of the service of your tapestry		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent acknowledgment=Recipient
3	is	past	your tapestry		necessary property	tree rules
4	mean	present	a		toward Princess's cure	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	acknowledge		Princess	the service of your tapestry		nom acknowledgment «state transitive»: poss=agent of=patient
6	service			your tapestry		nom service «act 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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