The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 48

“Madam, I return you a thousand thanks for the assurance you give me of a welcome to a place where I believed my imprudent curiosity had made me penetrate too far.

Who acts: Prince, thousand thanks, imprudent curiosity · What happens: return, give, believe, make, penetrate · To what, where: Madam, Prince, imprudent curiosity · 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 (Prince, thousand thanks, imprudent curiosity), 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	_	2 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 return	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 return	nsubj
5	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 return	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thousand	det
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 thanks	nummod
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	nsubj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 assurance	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 assurance	det
12	assurance	assurance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thanks	nmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 return	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 welcome	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 welcome	det
18	welcome	welcome	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 place	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 place	det
21	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 welcome	nmod
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 believed	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 believed	nsubj
24	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 place	acl:relcl
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 curiosity	nmod:poss
26	imprudent	imprudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 curiosity	amod
27	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 made	aux
29	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 believed	ccomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 made	obj
31	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 made	xcomp
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 far	advmod
33	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 penetrate	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	return in a quote	present	Prince	Madam			vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	give in a quote	present	thousand thanks for the assurance		Prince	of a welcome to a place	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	believe in a quote	past	Prince				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	make in a quote	past · perfect · passive		my imprudent curiosity			tree rules
5	penetrate in a quote	infinitive	my imprudent curiosity not said here			far property	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=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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