The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 15

First, I don’t think it proper for you to tell the Sultan your father of our marriage, nor of my quality, nor the place where you have been.

Who acts: I, you, our · What happens: not think, tell, marry · To what, where: advice, place, Sultan father · 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 (I, you, our), 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	First	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 think	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 First	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obj
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 think	advmod
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 tell	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 tell	nsubj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 tell	mark
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 think	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Sultan	det
14	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 father	compound
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 father	nmod:poss
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 marriage	case
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 marriage	nmod:poss
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 quality	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 quality	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 quality	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 quality	nmod:poss
24	quality	quality	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 father	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
26	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 place	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 place	det
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 been	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 been	nsubj
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 been	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 place	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I	advice		first, properly property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you	the place	your Sultan father of our marriage nor my quality		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	marry		our				nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent

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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