The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 13
“Prince,” said she, “go when you please.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: say, go · 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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 go | punct |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 you | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | xcomp |
| 12 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 9 go | discourse |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/13/