The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 4
I could also charm you with my gardens, but we will let that alone till another time.
Who acts: we · What happens: let
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 (we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 charm | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 charm | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 charm | advmod |
| 4 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 charm | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gardens | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gardens | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 you | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 let | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 let | cc |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 let | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 let | aux |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 charm | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 alone | mark |
| 15 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 let | fixed |
| 16 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 let | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 charm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | future | we | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=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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