The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 39
“You see,” said the Fairy, “that the pavilion is larger than what your father may have occasion for; for you must know that it has one property--that it is larger or smaller according to the army it is to cover.”
Who acts: You, Fairy, pavilion, father, occasion · What happens: see, say, be, have, know, accord · To what, where: occasion, one property · 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 (You, Fairy, pavilion, father), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fairy | det |
| 8 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 larger | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 larger | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 larger | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pavilion | det |
| 13 | pavilion | pavilion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 larger | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 larger | cop |
| 15 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 said | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 have | obj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | nsubj |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 larger | parataxis |
| 22 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 have | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 occasion | fixed |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 know | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | aux |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 has | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 know | ccomp |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 property | nummod |
| 33 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 38 larger | punct |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 larger | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 larger | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 larger | cop |
| 38 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 know | conj |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 smaller | cc |
| 40 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 larger | conj |
| 41 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 army | case |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 according | fixed |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 army | det |
| 44 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 larger | obl |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 cover | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 cover | cop |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 cover | mark |
| 48 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 army | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the pavilion | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | may | your father | occasion | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know in a quote | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | occasion | one property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | occasion | accord the army; large property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be in a quote | occasion not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | accord in a quote | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 10 | is in a quote | present | occasion | cover property | tree 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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