The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 24

“If all this be true,” added the Sultan, “you see that I must have recourse to other means to determine certainly in the choice I ought to make among you; and that, as there is time enough between this and night, I’ll do it to-day.

Who acts: this, Sultan, you, time · What happens: be, add, see, have, mean, determine · To what, where: recourse, choice, that · 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 (this, Sultan, you, time), 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	_	9 added	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 true	mark
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 true	det:predet
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 true	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 true	cop
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 added	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 true	punct
9	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 added	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 see	nsubj
15	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 added	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 have	mark
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 means	ccomp
20	recourse	recourse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 other	case
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 have	obl
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 see	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 determine	mark
25	determine	determine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 means	xcomp
26	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	25 determine	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 choice	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 choice	det
29	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 determine	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 make	nsubj
31	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 make	aux
32	to	to	PART	_	33 make	mark
33	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 choice	acl:relcl
34	among	among	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 make	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	52 do	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 do	cc
38	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 do	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 that	punct
40	as	as	SCONJ	_	42 is	mark
41	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	42 is	expl
42	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 do	advcl
43	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 is	nsubj
44	enough	enough	ADV	_	43 time	advmod
45	between	between	ADP	_	46 this	case
46	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 time	nmod
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 night	cc
48	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 time	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 is	punct
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
51	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 added	parataxis
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 do	obj
54	to	to	ADP	_	56 day	case
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 to	punct
56	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 do	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	this				true property	tree rules
2	add speech: assert	past	the Sultan					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	present	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have in a quote	must	the Sultan = sultan	recourse			to other	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient
5	mean in a quote	present						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	determine not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive			the choice		certainly property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	make in a quote	ought	the Sultan = sultan				among you	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8	does in a quote	present	time between this and night		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	do in a quote	future	the Sultan = sultan	that		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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