The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 22

But consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with the Princess’s illness by Prince Ali’s glass, and Prince Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.

Who acts: you, tapestry, glass · What happens: consider, be, not acquaint, not apply · To what, where: you, Prince Ahmed

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, tapestry, glass), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 consider	cc
2	consider	consider	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 use	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 use	aux
6	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 use	cop
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 use	case
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 use	amod
10	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consider	ccomp
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 acquainted	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 acquainted	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 acquainted	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 acquainted	advmod
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 acquainted	aux:pass
16	acquainted	acquaint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 use	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 illness	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Princess	det
19	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 illness	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Princess	case
21	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 acquainted	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	26 glass	case
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Ali	nmod:desc
24	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 glass	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 Ali	case
26	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 acquainted	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 applied	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 applied	cc
29	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 Ahmed	compound
30	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 applied	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 applied	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 applied	advmod
33	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 consider	advcl
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 apple	nmod:poss
35	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 apple	amod
36	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 applied	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consider	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consider	imperative	you not said here			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would · perfect	tapestry		of little use	tree rules
3	not acquaint speech: other a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	Ali Prince's glass	you	with the Princess's illness	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
4	not apply	past · perfect · passive		Prince Ahmed		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme apple=Destination

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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