The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 2, sentence 7

The crier, who had orders to sell it at that price, said to Prince Ahmed: “Come, sir, let us go and make the experiment, and the apple shall be yours; and I can assure you that it will always have the desired effect.”

Who acts: crier, orders, us, apple · What happens: have, sell, say, come, sir, let · To what, where: orders, friend, price, Prince Ahmed, us, experiment · 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 (crier, orders, us, apple), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crier	det
2	crier	crier	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crier	acl:relcl
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sell	mark
8	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sell	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 price	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 price	det
12	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crier	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 Ahmed	case
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Ahmed	compound
17	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Come	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Come	punct
20	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sir	punct
22	sir	sir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Come	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 let	punct
24	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Come	conj
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 let	obj
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 let	xcomp
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 make	cc
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 experiment	det
30	experiment	experiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 make	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 yours	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 yours	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 apple	det
34	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 yours	nsubj
35	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 yours	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 yours	cop
37	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Come	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 assure	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 assure	cc
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 assure	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 assure	aux
42	assure	assure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Come	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 assure	iobj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
47	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	48 have	advmod
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 assure	advcl
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 effect	det
50	desired	desire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	51 effect	amod
51	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
53	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	the crier	orders				tree rules
2	sell	to-infinitive	orders not said here	friend		that price		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at price=Asset
3	say speech: assert	past	the crier		Prince Ahmed			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to ahmed=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sir in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
6	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
7	go in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	make in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	the experiment				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset experiment=Product
9	is a in a quote	shall	the apple	Prince Ahmed = ahmed				tree rules
10	assure in a quote	can	the crier = crier		Prince Ahmed = ahmed			vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
11	have in a quote	future	apple	the desired effect			always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
12	desire in a quote	participle						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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