The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 17

Now, might not you engage him to use his interest with the Fairy to procure you a tent which might be carried in a man’s hand, and which should be so large as to shelter your whole army against bad weather?”

Who acts: you, majesty · What happens: not engage, use, procure, carry, be, shelter · To what, where: majesty, interest, tent, you, hand, whole army

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 (you, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 engage	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 engage	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 engage	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 engage	nsubj
6	engage	engage	VERB	Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 engage	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 use	mark
9	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 engage	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 interest	nmod:poss
11	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Fairy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Fairy	det
14	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 use	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 procure	mark
16	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 use	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 procure	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tent	det
19	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 procure	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 carried	nsubj:pass
21	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 carried	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 carried	aux:pass
23	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 tent	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 hand	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hand	nmod:poss
27	’s	's	PART	_	26 man	case
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carried	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 large	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 large	cc
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 large	nsubj
32	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 large	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 large	cop
34	so	so	ADV	_	35 large	advmod
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 engage	advcl
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	38 shelter	mark
37	to	to	PART	_	38 shelter	mark
38	shelter	shelter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 large	advcl
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 army	nmod:poss
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 army	amod
41	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shelter	obj
42	against	against	ADP	_	44 weather	case
43	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 weather	amod
44	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shelter	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 engage	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 engage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not engage	might	you	majesty			now		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute
2	use	to-infinitive	you not said here	majesty's interest				with the Fairy	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent interest=Patient
3	procure	to-infinitive	you not said here	a tent	you				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary tent=Theme
4	carry	might · passive		a tent		a man's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=Location
5	is	should						large property	tree rules
6	shelter	to-infinitive		your whole army		bad weather			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent army=Patient against weather=Location
7	interest		majesty						nom interest «cognition 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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