The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 3
“Prince,” said the Fairy, “if you admire my palace so much, which, indeed, is very beautiful, what would you say to the palaces of the chief of our genies, which are much more beautiful, spacious, and magnificent?
Who acts: Prince, you, genies · What happens: say, admire, be · To what, where: Fairy, palace, palaces · 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, you, genies), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fairy | det |
| 7 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 admire | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 admire | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 admire | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 admire | nsubj |
| 12 | admire | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 palace | nmod:poss |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 admire | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 admire | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beautiful | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 beautiful | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 which | punct |
| 20 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 indeed | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 beautiful | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 beautiful | advmod |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 admire | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 say | punct |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 say | obj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 say | aux |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 say | nsubj |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 beautiful | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 palaces | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 palaces | det |
| 32 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 say | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 chief | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 chief | det |
| 35 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 palaces | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 genies | case |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 genies | nmod:poss |
| 38 | genies | genie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 chief | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 beautiful | punct |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 beautiful | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 beautiful | cop |
| 42 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 more | advmod |
| 43 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 44 beautiful | advmod |
| 44 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 genies | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 spacious | punct |
| 46 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 beautiful | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 magnificent | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 magnificent | cc |
| 49 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 50 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Prince | the Fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | admire a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my palace | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | beautiful, indeed property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | would | you | the palaces of the chief of our genies | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to palace=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | our genies | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | our genies not said here | tree rules |
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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