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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 40

Perhaps fortune, to make me amends for depriving me of what I thought the greatest happiness, may have reserved a greater blessing for my comfort.”

Who acts: Perhaps fortune, I, my · What happens: make, deprive, think, reserve, comfort · To what, where: amends, me, greatest happiness, greater blessing

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 (Perhaps fortune, I, my), 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

amodnsubjpunctmarkobjobjmarkadvclobjcaseoblnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjpunctauxauxparataxisdetamodobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctpunctrootPerhapsADJfortuneNOUN,PUNCTtoPARTmakeVERBmePRONamendsNOUNforSCONJdeprivingVERBmePRONofADPwhatPRONIPRONthoughtVERBtheDETgreatestADJhappinessNOUN,PUNCTmayAUXhaveAUXreservedVERBaDETgreaterADJblessingNOUNforADPmyPRONcomfortNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1PerhapsperhapsADJDegree=Pos2 fortuneamod
2fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing5 makensubj
3,,PUNCT_5 makepunct
4totoPART_5 makemark
5makemakeVERBVerbForm=Infrootroot
6meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs5 makeobj
7amendsamendNOUNNumber=Plur5 makeobj
8forforSCONJ_9 deprivingmark
9deprivingdepriveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 makeadvcl
10meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 deprivingobj
11ofofADP_12 whatcase
12whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel9 deprivingobl
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 thoughtnsubj
14thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 whatacl:relcl
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 happinessdet
16greatestgreatADJDegree=Sup17 happinessamod
17happinesshappinessNOUNNumber=Sing14 thoughtobj
18,,PUNCT_21 reservedpunct
19maymayAUXVerbForm=Fin21 reservedaux
20havehaveAUXVerbForm=Inf21 reservedaux
21reservedreserveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part5 makeparataxis
22aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 blessingdet
23greatergreatADJDegree=Cmp24 blessingamod
24blessingblessingNOUNNumber=Sing21 reservedobj
25forforADP_27 comfortcase
26mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 comfortnmod:poss
27comfortcomfortNOUNNumber=Sing24 blessingnmod
28..PUNCT_5 makepunct
29”"PUNCT_5 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1maketo-infinitivePerhaps fortuneamendsmevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary amend=Product
2deprivegerundPerhaps fortune not said heremevn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Source of what=Theme
3think speech: otherpastIthe greatest happinessvn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot happiness=Theme
4reservemay · perfecta greater blessingfor my comfortvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme for comfort=Beneficiary
5comfortmynom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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