The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 39

“There must be some mystery in this,” said he to himself again, “and it may be advantageous to me.

Who acts: mystery, place · What happens: be, say · To what, where: mystery, this · 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 (mystery, place), 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	_	6 mystery	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 be	expl
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 mystery	cop
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mystery	det
6	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 mystery	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mystery	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 mystery	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 again	nsubj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 he	nmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	11 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 advantageous	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 advantageous	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 advantageous	cc
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 advantageous	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 advantageous	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 advantageous	cop
22	advantageous	advantageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 advantageous	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	infinitive		some mystery		this		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	some mystery					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	may	place		some mystery = mystery		advantageous property	tree rules

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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