The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 51

I am ready to assist you, and convey you where you will meet with a speedy cure; only get up, and let one of my people take you behind him.”

Who acts: I, you, one · What happens: be, assist, convey, meet, get up, let · To what, where: you

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, one), 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	3 ready	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	cop
3	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 assist	mark
5	assist	assist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 assist	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 convey	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 convey	cc
9	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ready	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 convey	obj
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 meet	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 meet	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 meet	aux
14	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 convey	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 cure	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 cure	det
17	speedy	speedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cure	amod
18	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 meet	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 get	punct
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 get	advmod
21	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 ready	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 get	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 let	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 get	conj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 take	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 people	nmod:poss
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 let	parataxis
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 take	obj
32	behind	behind	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 take	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			ready property	tree rules
2	assist	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
3	convey	infinitive	I not said here	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent you=Topic
4	meet	future	you			with a speedy cure	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with cure=Co-Agent
5	get up	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	let	infinitive					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	take	present	one of my people		you	behind Ahmed	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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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