The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 36

But the favorites went on abusing Prince Ahmed till the Sultan said: “Be it as it will, I don’t believe my son Ahmed is so wicked as you would persuade me he is; how ever, I am obliged to you for your good advice, and don’t dispute but that it proceeds from your good intentions.”

Who acts: favorites, Sultan, son, you, fidelity, your · What happens: go, abuse, say, be, not believe, oblige · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, fidelity, Sultan, you, good intentions · 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 (favorites, Sultan, son, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 favorites	det
3	favorites	favorite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	SCONJ	_	6 abusing	mark
6	abusing	abuse	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 went	advcl
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Ahmed	compound
8	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 abusing	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 said	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sultan	det
11	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 abusing	advcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 it	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 it	punct
15	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 it	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 will	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 will	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 went	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 believe	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 believe	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 believe	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 believe	advmod
24	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	parataxis
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 son	nmod:poss
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 wicked	nsubj
27	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 son	appos
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 wicked	cop
29	so	so	ADV	_	30 wicked	advmod
30	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 believe	ccomp
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 persuade	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 persuade	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 persuade	aux
34	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 wicked	parataxis
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 persuade	obj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 is	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 persuade	cop
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 ever	punct
39	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 ever	advmod
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 wicked	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 obliged	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 obliged	nsubj
43	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 obliged	aux:pass
44	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 believe	parataxis
45	to	to	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 obliged	obl
47	for	for	ADP	_	50 advice	case
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 advice	nmod:poss
49	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 advice	amod
50	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 obliged	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 dispute	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 dispute	cc
53	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	55 dispute	aux
54	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 dispute	advmod
55	dispute	dispute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 believe	parataxis
56	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 proceeds	cc
57	that	that	SCONJ	_	59 proceeds	mark
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 proceeds	nsubj
59	proceeds	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 dispute	conj
60	from	from	ADP	_	63 intentions	case
61	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 intentions	nmod:poss
62	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 intentions	amod
63	intentions	intention	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 proceeds	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 believe	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the favorites					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	abuse	gerund	the favorites not said here	Prince Ahmed				vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ahmed=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Sultan					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is a in a quote	infinitive		fidelity				tree rules
5	not believe in a quote	present · do-support	the Sultan = sultan					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	is in a quote	present	my son				wicked property	tree rules
7	is in a quote	would	you				persuade property	tree rules
8	oblige in a quote	present · passive		the Sultan = sultan	you		for your good advice	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	not dispute in a quote	infinitive · do-support						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	proceed in a quote	present	fidelity			your good intentions		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
11	intend in a quote		your					nom intention «cognition 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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