The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 31
For my part I have not forgot what you told me at your return, and so put you in mind of it, that you may not be long before you acquit yourself of your promise.”
Who acts: I, you, your · What happens: have, not forget, tell, put, not be, acquit · To what, where: me, return, you, mind, yourself · 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, 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 part | nmod:poss |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forgot | advmod |
| 7 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | advcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 told | obj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgot | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 told | iobj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 return | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 return | nmod:poss |
| 14 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 put | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 put | advmod |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 mind | case |
| 21 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mind | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 acquit | punct |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 long | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 long | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 long | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 long | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 long | cop |
| 30 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 acquit | advcl |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 33 acquit | mark |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 acquit | nsubj |
| 33 | acquit | acquit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 put | parataxis |
| 34 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 acquit | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 promise | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 promise | nmod:poss |
| 37 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 acquit | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | for my part | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not forget | past | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | you | me | your return | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | I not said here | you | mind of return | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme in mind=Destination | |||
| 5 | not is | may | you | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | acquit | present | you | yourself | of your promise | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer yourself=Source of promise=Theme | |||
| 7 | return | your | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mind | return | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | promise | your | nom promise «communication 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/51/31/