The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 4
We’ll leave you, and hope to find you perfectly cured when we come again an hour hence.”
Who acts: We · What happens: leave, hope, find, cure, come · To what, where: 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | aux |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 leave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hope | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hope | cc |
| 7 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 leave | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hope | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 12 cured | advmod |
| 12 | cured | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | ccomp |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 come | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | advcl |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hour | det |
| 18 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | We | you | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hope | present | We not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | We not said here | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cure | past | perfectly property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer | |||||
| 5 | come | present | we | again; hour | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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