The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 49
But, madam, may I, without being guilty of ill manners, dare to ask you by what adventure you know me? and how you, who live in the same neighborhood with me, should be so great a stranger to me?”
Who acts: madam, you · What happens: be, dare, ask, know, live · To what, where: you, me, same neighborhood · 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 (madam, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 dare | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 madam | punct |
| 3 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dare | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 I | punct |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 I | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 madam | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 guilty | punct |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 guilty | case |
| 9 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 guilty | cop |
| 10 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 madam | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 manners | case |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 manners | amod |
| 13 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 guilty | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 madam | punct |
| 15 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 ask | mark |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dare | xcomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | iobj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 know | obj |
| 21 | adventure | adventure | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 know | nsubj |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ask | ccomp |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 know | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 live | cc |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 live | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 live | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 live | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 live | nsubj |
| 31 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 dare | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 neighborhood | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 neighborhood | det |
| 34 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 neighborhood | amod |
| 35 | neighborhood | neighborhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 live | obl |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 me | case |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 neighborhood | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 great | punct |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 great | aux |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 great | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 great | advmod |
| 42 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dare | conj |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 stranger | det |
| 44 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 great | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 me | case |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 great | obl |
| 47 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 dare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of ill manners; guilty property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dare | infinitive | madam | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | madam not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | know | present | you | me | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live | present | you | the same neighborhood with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighborhood=Location | ||||
| 6 | is | should | madam not said here | me | great 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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