The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 24

“Son,” answered the Sultan of the Indies, “I cannot refuse you the leave you ask me; but I should much rather you would resolve to stay with me; at least tell me where I may send to you if you should fail to come, or when I may think your presence necessary.”

Who acts: Son, Sultan · What happens: answer, not refuse, leave, ask, resolve, stay · To what, where: Sultan, Son, least, presence · 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 (Son, Sultan), 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	_	2 Son	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 Indies	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Indies	det
10	Indies	Indy	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 Sultan	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 refuse	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 refuse	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 refuse	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 refuse	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 refuse	advmod
16	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 refuse	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 leave	det
19	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 refuse	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 leave	obj
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 leave	conj
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ask	iobj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 resolve	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 resolve	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 resolve	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 resolve	aux
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 rather	advmod
28	rather	rather	ADV	_	31 resolve	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 resolve	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 resolve	aux
31	resolve	resolve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
32	to	to	PART	_	33 stay	mark
33	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 resolve	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 stay	obl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 tell	punct
37	at	at	ADP	_	38 least	case
38	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 tell	obl
39	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stay	conj
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tell	iobj
41	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 send	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 send	nsubj
43	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 send	aux
44	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 tell	ccomp
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 send	obl
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	50 fail	mark
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	50 fail	nsubj
49	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 fail	aux
50	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 send	advcl
51	to	to	PART	_	52 come	mark
52	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 fail	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 think	punct
54	or	or	CCONJ	_	58 think	cc
55	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	58 think	advmod
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 think	nsubj
57	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 think	aux
58	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 stay	conj
59	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 presence	nmod:poss
60	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 think	obj
61	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 think	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 resolve	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 resolve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Son		the Sultan of the Indies			tree rules
2	not refuse in a quote	can	Son	the Sultan of the Indies = sultan				vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3	leave in a quote	infinitive	Son not said here	the Sultan of the Indies = sultan				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	infinitive	Son not said here		Son			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
5	resolve in a quote	would	Son					tree rules
6	stay in a quote	to-infinitive	Son not said here				with Son	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Son not said here		Son	least		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
8	send in a quote	may	Son		the Sultan of the Indies = sultan			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to you=Destination
9	fail a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	the Sultan of the Indies = sultan					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
10	not come in a quote	to-infinitive	the Sultan of the Indies = sultan not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	think speech: other in a quote	may	Son	your presence			necessary property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot presence=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.

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