The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 60
Pardon in me the boldness which inspires me to ask this favor, and don’t refuse to admit me into your Court, a prince who is entirely devoted to you.”
Who acts: boldness · What happens: inspire, ask, not refuse, admit, devote · To what, where: me, favor, Court, prince, you
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 (boldness), 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 | Pardon | pardon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Pardon | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boldness | det |
| 5 | boldness | boldness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pardon | appos |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 inspires | nsubj |
| 7 | inspires | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 boldness | acl:relcl |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 inspires | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 inspires | advcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 favor | det |
| 12 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ask | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 refuse | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 refuse | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 refuse | aux |
| 16 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 refuse | advmod |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 admit | mark |
| 19 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 refuse | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 admit | obj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 Court | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Court | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 admit | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 prince | punct |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 prince | det |
| 26 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Court | appos |
| 27 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 devoted | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 devoted | aux:pass |
| 29 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 30 devoted | advmod |
| 30 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 prince | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 devoted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pardon | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pardon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspire | present | the boldness | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the boldness not said here | this favor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | not refuse | infinitive · do-support | the boldness not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | admit speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | the boldness not said here | me | your Court | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 5 | devote | present · passive | a prince | you | entirely property | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to you=Goal |
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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