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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 24

“Son,” replied the Sultan of the Indies, “I should be very sorry if what I ask of you should cause me the displeasure of never seeing you more.

Who acts: Son, you, displeasure · What happens: reply, be, ask, cause, not see · To what, where: Sultan, Son, you · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Son, you, displeasure), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjcasedetnmodpunctpunctnsubjauxcopadvmodconjmarkoblnsubjacl:relcloblnsubjauxparataxisobjdetobjmarkadvmodaclobjobjpunctroot“PUNCTSonPROPN,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETSultanPROPNofADPtheDETIndiesPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONshouldAUXbeAUXveryADVsorryADJifSCONJwhatPRONIPRONaskVERBofADPyouPRONshouldAUXcauseVERBmePRONtheDETdispleasureNOUNofSCONJneverADVseeingVERByouPRONmoreADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
2SonSonPROPNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Sonpunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Sonpunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Sultandet
7SultanSultanPROPNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8ofofADP_10 Indiescase
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Indiesdet
10IndiesIndyPROPNNumber=Plur7 Sultannmod
11,,PUNCT_17 sorrypunct
12“"PUNCT_17 sorrypunct
13IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs17 sorrynsubj
14shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 sorryaux
15bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf17 sorrycop
16veryveryADV_17 sorryadvmod
17sorrysorryADJDegree=Pos5 repliedconj
18ififSCONJ_19 whatmark
19whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel25 causeobl
20IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 asknsubj
21askaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 whatacl:relcl
22ofofADP_21 askobl
23youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs25 causensubj
24shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin25 causeaux
25causecauseVERBVerbForm=Inf17 sorryparataxis
26meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 causeobj
27thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 displeasuredet
28displeasuredispleasureNOUNNumber=Sing25 causeobj
29ofofSCONJ_31 seeingmark
30neverneverADVPronType=Neg31 seeingadvmod
31seeingseeVERBVerbForm=Ger28 displeasureacl
32youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs31 seeingobj
33moremoreADJDegree=Cmp31 seeingobj
34..PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastSonthe Sultan of the Indiesvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sultan=Topic
2is in a quoteshouldSonsorry propertytree rules
3ask speech: ask in a quotepresentSonvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4cause in a quoteshouldyouSonvn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Causer i=Theme displeasure=Eventuality
5not see in a quotegerundthe displeasure not said hereyoutree rules

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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