The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 16
Beg of him to be satisfied in knowing you are happy, and desire no more; and let him know that the sole end of your visit is to make him easy, and inform him of your fate.”
Who acts: Beg, Ahmed, sole end, your · What happens: be, know, desire, let, inform, visit · To what, where: you, more, Ahmed · 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 (Beg, Ahmed, sole end, your), 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 | Beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 happy | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Beg | nmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Beg | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 knowing | mark |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 satisfied | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 knowing | obj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | cop |
| 11 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 desire | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 desire | cc |
| 14 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | parataxis |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 desire | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 happy | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | obj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 24 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 visit | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 visit | nmod:poss |
| 28 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 make | cop |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 know | ccomp |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 make | obj |
| 33 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 make | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 inform | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 inform | cc |
| 36 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 inform | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 fate | case |
| 39 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 fate | nmod:poss |
| 40 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 inform | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | Beg of Ahmed not said here | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | Beg of Ahmed not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | present | Beg of Ahmed | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | desire | present | more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | |||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | Ahmed | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | know | infinitive | Ahmed not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | is | present | the sole end of your visit | easy, make property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | inform speech: other | infinitive | Ahmed | of your fate | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of fate=Topic | ||||
| 9 | visit | your | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | fate | your | nom fate «event 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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