The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 27

She kept pressing him to tell her what was the matter, and at last he said: “Madam, you may have observed that hitherto I have been content with your love, and have never asked you any other favor.

Who acts: wife, Prince, your · What happens: keep, press, tell, be, say, observe · To what, where: Prince, wife, matter, last, Madam, content · 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 (wife, Prince, your), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	pressing	press	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pressing	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pressing	advcl
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 matter	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 matter	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 matter	det
11	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 last	case
15	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 observed	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 observed	punct
20	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 observed	nsubj:pass
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Madam	punct
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 observed	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 observed	aux
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 observed	aux
25	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 content	mark
27	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	31 content	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 content	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 content	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 content	cop
31	content	content	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 observed	advcl
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 love	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 love	nmod:poss
34	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 content	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 asked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 asked	cc
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 asked	aux
38	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	39 asked	advmod
39	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 kept	parataxis
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 asked	iobj
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 favor	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 favor	amod
43	favor	favor	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 asked	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	past	wife					tree rules
2	press	gerund	wife not said here	Prince				vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	wife not said here		wife			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	is a	past		the matter				tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Prince			last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	observe in a quote	may · perfect · passive		Madam				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
7	is a in a quote	present · perfect	Prince	content			with your love; hitherto property	tree rules
8	not ask speech: ask in a quote	present · perfect		any other favor	you			tree rules
9	love in a quote		your					nom love «feeling 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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