The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 59
But don’t be concerned, let what will be devised against you; be persuaded that I will deliver you out of all the snares that shall be laid for you.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, not be, let, devise, persuade, deliver · To what, where: you, snares
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 (you, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 let | cc |
| 2 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | advcl |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 concerned | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 concerned | cop |
| 5 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 do | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 devised | obj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 devised | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 devised | aux:pass |
| 11 | devised | devise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 let | xcomp |
| 12 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 devised | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 persuaded | punct |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 16 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 let | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 deliver | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 deliver | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 deliver | aux |
| 20 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 persuaded | advcl |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 deliver | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 snares | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 snares | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 snares | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 snares | det |
| 26 | snares | snare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 deliver | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 laid | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 laid | aux:pass |
| 30 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 snares | acl:relcl |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 laid | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | infinitive | you not said here | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | devise | future · passive | you not said here | against you | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: what=Patient | ||||
| 5 | persuade | infinitive · passive | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 6 | deliver | future | I | you | all snares | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent you=Theme out snare=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | lay | shall · passive | all snares | for you | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for you=Beneficiary |
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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