The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 23

The Prince told a story of his adventures without speaking of the Fairy, whom he said that he must not mention, and ended: “The only favor I ask of your Majesty is to give me leave to come often and pay you my respects, and to know how you do.”

Who acts: Prince, only favor, you · What happens: tell, speak, say, not mention, end, ask · To what, where: story, Fairy, only favor, Prince, you · 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, only favor, you), 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 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 adventures	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 adventures	nmod:poss
8	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 story	nmod
9	without	without	SCONJ	_	10 speaking	mark
10	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 told	advcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Fairy	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fairy	det
13	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 speaking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 said	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 Fairy	acl:relcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 mention	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 mention	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 mention	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 mention	advmod
22	mention	mention	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ended	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 ended	cc
25	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 ended	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 favor	punct
28	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 favor	det
29	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 favor	amod
30	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	nsubj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 ask	nsubj
32	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 favor	acl:relcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Majesty	case
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 Majesty	nmod:poss
35	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 ask	obl
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 give	cop
37	to	to	PART	_	38 give	mark
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ended	ccomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 give	xcomp
41	to	to	PART	_	42 come	mark
42	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 leave	xcomp
43	often	often	ADV	_	42 come	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 pay	cc
45	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 come	conj
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	45 pay	obj
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 respects	nmod:poss
48	respects	respects	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 pay	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 know	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 know	cc
51	to	to	PART	_	52 know	mark
52	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
53	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	55 do	advmod
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 do	nsubj
55	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 know	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 know	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Prince	a story of Prince's adventures			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent story=Recipient clause=Topic
2	speak speech: other	gerund	the Prince not said here			of the Fairy	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Prince	the Fairy			tree rules
4	not mention speech: other	must	Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	end	past	the Prince not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	the Prince = prince	the only favor not said here		of your Majesty	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favor=Recipient
7	is in a quote	present	the only favor		the Prince = prince	give property	tree rules
8	leave in a quote	infinitive	the only favor not said here				tree rules
9	come in a quote	to-infinitive	the only favor not said here			often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	pay in a quote	infinitive	the only favor not said here		you		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient respects=Asset
11	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
12	do in a quote	present	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
13	adventure		Prince				nom adventure «act 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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