The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 50
“Good woman,” replied Prince Ahmed, “you are not so far from help as you imagine.
Who acts: Good woman, you · What happens: reply, be, imagine · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, help · 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 (Good woman, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ahmed | compound |
| 8 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 help | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 help | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 far | advmod |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 far | advmod |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 help | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 imagine | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 imagine | nsubj |
| 20 | imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 help | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Good woman | Prince Ahmed | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | help | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | imagine in a quote | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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