The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 56
“I found her in the condition you see her in, and promised her the assistance she stands in need of, and am persuaded that you, out of your own goodness, as well as upon my entreaty, will not abandon her.”
Who acts: Prince, you, Fairy · What happens: find, see in, promise, stand, persuade, not abandon · To what, where: Fairy, condition, assistance, need · 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 (Prince, you, Fairy), 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 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 condition | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 condition | det |
| 7 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 see | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 see | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 promised | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 promised | cc |
| 14 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 promised | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 assistance | det |
| 17 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 promised | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stands | nsubj |
| 19 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 assistance | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 need | case |
| 21 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stands | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 need | case |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 persuaded | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 persuaded | cc |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 26 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | ccomp |
| 27 | that | that | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 persuaded | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 goodness | punct |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 goodness | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 goodness | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 goodness | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 goodness | amod |
| 34 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 persuaded | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 entreaty | punct |
| 36 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 41 entreaty | cc |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 as | fixed |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 as | fixed |
| 39 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 entreaty | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 entreaty | nmod:poss |
| 41 | entreaty | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 goodness | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 abandon | punct |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 abandon | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 abandon | advmod |
| 45 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 found | ccomp |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 abandon | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 45 abandon | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 abandon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | past | Prince | Fairy | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in in a quote | present | you | Fairy | the condition | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | promise speech: promise in a quote | past | Prince not said here | the assistance | Fairy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent she=Goal assistance=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand in a quote | present | Fairy | the assistance not said here | need | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent assistance=Theme in need=Destination | |||
| 5 | persuade in a quote | present · passive | that you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 6 | not abandon in a quote | future | Fairy | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme she=Source |
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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