The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 16
As, for example, every time your Majesty goes into the field, you are obliged to be at a great expense, not only in pavilions and tents for your army, but likewise in mules and camels to carry their baggage.
Who acts: Majesty · What happens: go, oblige, be, carry · To what, where: field, you, great expense, baggage
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 (Majesty), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 10 goes | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 As | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 example | case |
| 4 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 example | punct |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obliged | punct |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 obliged | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 obliged | aux:pass |
| 17 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 goes | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 expense | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 expense | cop |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 expense | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 expense | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 expense | amod |
| 23 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obliged | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pavilions | punct |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 pavilions | advmod |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 pavilions | advmod |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 pavilions | case |
| 28 | pavilions | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 expense | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 tents | cc |
| 30 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 pavilions | conj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 army | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 army | nmod:poss |
| 33 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pavilions | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 mules | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 mules | cc |
| 36 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 38 mules | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 mules | case |
| 38 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 obliged | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 camels | cc |
| 40 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 mules | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 carry | mark |
| 42 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 obliged | advcl |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 baggage | nmod:poss |
| 44 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 carry | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | your Majesty | the field | time | for example | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | oblige | present · passive | you | in mules and camels | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | a great expense and pavilions for your army and tents | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | camels's baggage | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme |
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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