The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 52
Then she sat down on a sofa, and when the Prince by her entreaty had done the same she said: “You are surprised, you say, that I should know you and not be known by you, but you will be no longer surprised when I inform you who I am.
Who acts: lady, You · What happens: sit down, do, say, be, know, not know · To what, where: sofa, Prince, you · 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 (lady, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sofa | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sofa | det |
| 7 | sofa | sofa | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 done | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 entreaty | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 entreaty | nmod:poss |
| 15 | entreaty | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Prince | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 said | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 same | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 done | obj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 surprised | punct |
| 23 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 surprised | punct |
| 24 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 surprised | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 surprised | cop |
| 26 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 say | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 say | nsubj |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 surprised | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 know | punct |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 know | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 know | nsubj |
| 33 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 know | aux |
| 34 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 say | ccomp |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 know | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 known | cc |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 known | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 known | aux:pass |
| 39 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 know | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 you | case |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 known | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 surprised | punct |
| 43 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 49 surprised | cc |
| 44 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 surprised | nsubj |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 surprised | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 surprised | cop |
| 47 | no | no | ADV | _ | 48 longer | advmod |
| 48 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 49 surprised | advmod |
| 49 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | parataxis |
| 50 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 52 inform | advmod |
| 51 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 inform | nsubj |
| 52 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 surprised | advcl |
| 53 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 52 inform | iobj |
| 54 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 inform | conj |
| 55 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 54 who | nsubj |
| 56 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 who | cop |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | lady | a sofa | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | past · perfect · passive | the Prince by lady's entreaty | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | lady | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | You | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | know in a quote | should | lady | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | not know in a quote | infinitive · passive | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | is in a quote | future | you | long, surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | inform speech: other in a quote | present | lady | you | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 10 | is a in a quote | present | lady | 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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