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The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 30

“Prince,” replied the Fairy, smiling, “I am sorry that so small a matter should disturb you, and make you so uneasy as you appeared to me.”

Who acts: Prince, matter, you · What happens: reply, smile, be, disturb, make, appear · To what, where: Fairy, sorry, you, Prince · 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 (Prince, matter, you), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetobjpunctadvclpunctpunctnsubjcopobjnsubjadvmodamoddetnsubjauxparataxisobjpunctccconjobjadvmodxcompmarknsubjadvclcaseoblpunctpunctroot“PUNCTPrincePROPN,PUNCT”PUNCTrepliedVERBtheDETFairyNOUN,PUNCTsmilingVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTIPRONamAUXsorryNOUNthatPRONsoADVsmallADJaDETmatterNOUNshouldAUXdisturbVERByouPRON,PUNCTandCCONJmakeVERByouPRONsoADVuneasyADJasSCONJyouPRONappearedVERBtoADPmePRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 repliedpunct
2PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing5 repliednsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Princepunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Princepunct
5repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Fairydet
7FairyfairyNOUNNumber=Sing5 repliedobj
8,,PUNCT_9 smilingpunct
9smilingsmileVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 repliedadvcl
10,,PUNCT_14 sorrypunct
11“"PUNCT_14 sorrypunct
12IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs14 sorrynsubj
13ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 sorrycop
14sorrysorryNOUNNumber=Sing9 smilingobj
15thatthatPRONPronType=Rel17 smallnsubj
16sosoADV_17 smalladvmod
17smallsmallADJDegree=Pos14 sorryamod
18aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 matterdet
19mattermatterNOUNNumber=Sing21 disturbnsubj
20shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin21 disturbaux
21disturbdisturbVERBVerbForm=Inf17 smallparataxis
22youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs21 disturbobj
23,,PUNCT_25 makepunct
24andandCCONJ_25 makecc
25makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf21 disturbconj
26youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs25 makeobj
27sosoADV_28 uneasyadvmod
28uneasyuneasyADJDegree=Pos25 makexcomp
29asasSCONJ_31 appearedmark
30youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs31 appearednsubj
31appearedappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 uneasyadvcl
32totoADP_33 mecase
33meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs31 appearedobl
34..PUNCT_14 sorrypunct
35”"PUNCT_5 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastPrincethe Fairyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fairy=Topic
2smilegerundPrince not said herevn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3is a in a quotepresentPrincesorrytree rules
4disturb in a quoteshoulda matteryouvn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
5make in a quoteinfinitivea matter not said hereyouuneasy propertyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product
6appear in a quotepastyouPrincevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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