The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 25
I find you don’t know the power a husband has over a wife; and yours would show that her love to you was very indifferent if she, with the power she has of a fairy, should refuse you so trifling a request as this I desire you to ask of her for my sake.”
Who acts: I, you, husband, yours, love, wife · What happens: find, not know, have, show, be, refuse · To what, where: power, you, request · 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 (I, you, husband, yours), 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 | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 find | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 husband | det |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 has | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 show | cc |
| 17 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 show | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 show | aux |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 find | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 indifferent | mark |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 indifferent | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 you | case |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 indifferent | cop |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 indifferent | advmod |
| 27 | indifferent | indifferent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 show | ccomp |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 she | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 indifferent | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 power | punct |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 power | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 power | det |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 refuse | nsubj |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 has | nsubj |
| 35 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 power | acl:relcl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 fairy | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 fairy | det |
| 38 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 has | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 refuse | punct |
| 40 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 refuse | aux |
| 41 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 show | parataxis |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 refuse | obj |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 trifling | advmod |
| 44 | trifling | trifle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 desire | advcl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 request | det |
| 46 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 trifling | obj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 48 this | case |
| 48 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 trifling | obl |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 50 desire | nsubj |
| 50 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 refuse | parataxis |
| 51 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 50 desire | obj |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 ask | mark |
| 53 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 desire | advcl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 her | case |
| 55 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 ask | obl |
| 56 | for | for | ADP | _ | 58 sake | case |
| 57 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 sake | nmod:poss |
| 58 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 ask | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| 60 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | a husband | over a wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | show | would | yours | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | wife's love to you | indifferent property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | present | wife | the power not said here | of a fairy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | |||
| 7 | refuse | should | the power | you | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 8 | trifle | gerund | I not said here | a request | as this | tree rules | |||
| 9 | desire | present | I | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 10 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | of wife; for my sake | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient | ||||
| 11 | love | wife | to you | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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