The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 26
I’ll soon come to you, and declare I will give the Princess Nouronnihar to him that shoots the farthest.”
Who acts: I, that · What happens: come, give, shoot · To what, where: you, Princess Nouronnihar, glass, farthest
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 (I, that), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 9 | declare | declare | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 come | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nouronnihar | det |
| 14 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 15 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 shoots | nsubj |
| 19 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 farthest | det |
| 21 | farthest | far | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 shoots | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | I | you | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | give | present | I | the Princess Nouronnihar | glass | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nouronnihar=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | shoot | present | that | the farthest | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent far=Theme |
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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