The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 58

While the two women executed the Fairy’s commands, she went up to Prince Ahmed, and, whispering in his ear, said: “Prince, this woman is not so sick as she pretends to be; and I am very much mistaken if she is not an impostor, who will be the cause of a great trouble to you.

Who acts: two women, Fairy, woman, impostor · What happens: execute, go up, whisper, say, not be, pretend · To what, where: commands, Prince Ahmed, ear, impostor, cause · 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 (two women, Fairy, woman, impostor), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	5 executed	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 women	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 women	nummod
4	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 executed	nsubj
5	executed	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 commands	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Fairy	case
9	commands	command	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 executed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 executed	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 went	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Ahmed	case
15	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Ahmed	compound
16	Ahmed	Ahmed	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 said	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whispering	punct
20	whispering	whisper	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 said	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ear	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ear	nmod:poss
23	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 whispering	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whispering	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	conj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 Prince	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 Prince	punct
28	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sick	punct
30	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 woman	det
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sick	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sick	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 sick	advmod
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 sick	advmod
35	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Prince	amod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 pretends	mark
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 pretends	nsubj
38	pretends	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 sick	advcl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 be	mark
40	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 pretends	xcomp
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 mistaken	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 mistaken	cc
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 mistaken	nsubj
44	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 mistaken	cop
45	very	very	ADV	_	46 much	advmod
46	much	much	ADV	_	47 mistaken	advmod
47	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 went	parataxis
48	if	if	SCONJ	_	53 impostor	mark
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 impostor	nsubj
50	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	53 impostor	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	53 impostor	advmod
52	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 impostor	det
53	impostor	impostor	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mistaken	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 cause	punct
55	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 cause	nsubj
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 cause	aux
57	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	59 cause	cop
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 cause	det
59	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 impostor	parataxis
60	of	of	ADP	_	63 trouble	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 trouble	det
62	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 trouble	amod
63	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 cause	nmod
64	to	to	ADP	_	65 you	case
65	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 trouble	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	execute	past	the two women	the Fairy's commands				vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Patient
2	go up	past	Fairy		Prince Ahmed			tree rules
3	whisper speech: assert	gerund				Ahmed's ear		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	Fairy not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not is in a quote	present	this woman				sick property	tree rules
6	pretend in a quote	present	Fairy					tree rules
7	be in a quote	to-infinitive	Fairy not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	is in a quote	present	Fairy				mistaken property	tree rules
9	not is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Fairy	a impostor				tree rules
10	is a in a quote	future	a impostor	the cause			of a great trouble to you	tree rules
11	command		the Fairy					nom command «communication 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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