The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 3, sentence 62

“My Princess,” said he, “as I do not remember I ever did or designed anybody an injury, I cannot believe anybody can have a thought of doing me one, but if they have I shall not, nevertheless, forbear doing good whenever I have an opportunity.”

Who acts: Princess, anybody, thought, women · What happens: say, not remember, do, design, not believe, have · To what, where: anybody, thought, Princess, good, opportunity · 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 (Princess, anybody, thought, women), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 Princess	nmod:poss
3	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 Princess	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 remember	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 remember	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 remember	advmod
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
16	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 did	advmod
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	ccomp
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	19 designed	cc
19	designed	design	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 did	conj
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 designed	obj
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 injury	det
22	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 designed	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 believe	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 believe	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 believe	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 believe	advmod
27	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 remember	parataxis
28	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 have	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 have	aux
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 believe	ccomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 thought	det
32	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	34 doing	mark
34	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 thought	acl
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 doing	obj
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 doing	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 forbear	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 forbear	cc
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 have	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 have	nsubj
41	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 forbear	advcl
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 shall	nsubj
43	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 have	parataxis
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 shall	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
46	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	_	41 have	advmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 have	punct
48	forbear	forbear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
49	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	48 forbear	xcomp
50	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 doing	obj
51	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 have	advmod
52	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 have	nsubj
53	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 doing	advcl
54	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 opportunity	det
55	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 have	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	48 forbear	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	48 forbear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My Princess					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not remember in a quote	present · do-support	My Princess = princess					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	do in a quote	past	My Princess = princess			ever		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	design in a quote	past	My Princess = princess not said here		anybody			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent anybody=Beneficiary injury=Result
5	not believe in a quote	can	My Princess = princess					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	have in a quote	can	anybody	a thought				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient
7	do in a quote	gerund	a thought not said here	My Princess = princess				tree rules
8	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	women = woman				nevertheless property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	forbear in a quote	infinitive						tree rules
10	do in a quote	gerund		good				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
11	have in a quote	present	My Princess = princess	a opportunity			whenever property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient

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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