The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 11

I won’t detain you, but perhaps you may not be displeased to see my palace; follow my women, and they will show it you.”

Who acts: I, women · What happens: not detain, not displease, see, follow, show · To what, where: you, palace, women

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 detain	nsubj
2	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 detain	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 detain	advmod
4	detain	detain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 detain	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 displeased	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 displeased	cc
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	13 displeased	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 displeased	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 displeased	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 displeased	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 displeased	aux:pass
13	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 detain	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 displeased	xcomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 palace	nmod:poss
17	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 follow	punct
19	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 detain	conj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 women	nmod:poss
21	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 follow	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 show	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 show	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 show	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 show	aux
26	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 follow	advcl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 show	obj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 show	iobj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 detain	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 detain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not detain	future	I	you			vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not displease	may · passive		you		perhaps property	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive		my palace			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
4	follow	infinitive	I not said here	my women			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme
5	show	future	women = woman	palace	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient it=Topic

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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