The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 56

I took it in the air, and gave it the necessary motion to strike against the rocks near which you found it, and I tell you that it lies in your power to make use of the favorable opportunity which presents itself to make you happy.”

Who acts: I, you, worthy, favorable opportunity · What happens: take, give, strike, find, tell, lie · To what, where: worthy, air, rocks, you, power, use · 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 (I, you, worthy, favorable opportunity), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gave	cc
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 motion	det
12	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 motion	amod
13	motion	motion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 strike	mark
15	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 gave	advcl
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 rocks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 rocks	det
18	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 strike	obl
19	near	near	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 found	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 found	nsubj
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 rocks	acl:relcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 found	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tell	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 tell	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 tell	nsubj
27	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 tell	iobj
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 lies	mark
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lies	nsubj
31	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 tell	advcl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 power	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 power	nmod:poss
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lies	obl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 make	mark
36	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 lies	advcl
37	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 opportunity	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 opportunity	det
40	favorable	favorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 opportunity	amod
41	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 use	nmod
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 presents	nsubj
43	presents	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 opportunity	acl:relcl
44	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	43 presents	obj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 make	mark
46	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 presents	advcl
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 make	obj
48	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 make	xcomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	I	worthy		the air		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in air=Location
2	give	past	I not said here	worthy				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient motion=Theme
3	strike	to-infinitive	I not said here			the rocks		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against rock=Location
4	find	past	you	worthy		the rocks		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	present	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	lie	present	worthy			your power		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in power=Location
7	make	to-infinitive	worthy not said here	use of the favorable opportunity				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
8	present	present	the favorable opportunity	worthy				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme
9	make	to-infinitive	the favorable opportunity not said here	you			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
10	use			the favorable opportunity				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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