The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 45

“Son,” said he, “I have already expressed to you how much I am obliged to you for the present of the tent you have procured me; that I look upon it as the most valuable thing in all my treasury.

Who acts: Son, you · What happens: say, express, oblige, procure, look · To what, where: much, you, Son · 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 (Son, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Son	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 expressed	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 expressed	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 expressed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 expressed	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 expressed	advmod
12	expressed	express	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 you	case
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 expressed	obl
15	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 expressed	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 obliged	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 obliged	aux:pass
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 expressed	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 obliged	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 present	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 present	det
24	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 obliged	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tent	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tent	det
27	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 present	nmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 procured	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 procured	aux
30	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 tent	acl:relcl
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 procured	obj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 look	punct
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 look	mark
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 look	nsubj
35	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
36	upon	upon	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 look	obl
38	as	as	ADP	_	42 thing	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 thing	det
40	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	41 valuable	advmod
41	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thing	amod
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 treasury	case
44	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 treasury	det:predet
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 treasury	nmod:poss
46	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 thing	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Son				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	express in a quote	present · perfect	Son	much	you		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent much=Theme to you=Recipient
3	oblige in a quote	present · passive		Son	you	for the present of the tent	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	procure in a quote	present · perfect	you	Son			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	look in a quote	present	Son			upon present; as the valuable thing in my treasury	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=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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