The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 61
“Prince,” answered the Fairy, “will you not pledge your faith to me, as well as I give mine to you?”
Who acts: Prince, Fairy · What happens: answer, not pledge, give · To what, where: Fairy, faith, Prince · 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, Fairy), 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 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pledge | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pledge | punct |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 pledge | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 pledge | nsubj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 pledge | advmod |
| 13 | pledge | pledge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 faith | nmod:poss |
| 15 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pledge | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 pledge | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 23 give | cc |
| 20 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 as | fixed |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 as | fixed |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 give | nsubj |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 pledge | conj |
| 24 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 pledge | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 pledge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Prince | the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not pledge in a quote | future | the Fairy = fairy | your faith | Prince | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent faith=Theme to i=Goal | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | present | Prince | Prince | to the Fairy = fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent my=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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