The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 48
Do me this other important piece of service, and thereby complete the duty of a good son toward a tender father.”
Who acts: you, this · What happens: do, piece, complete · To what, where: me, duty
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, this), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | iobj |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 piece | nsubj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 5 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 piece | amod |
| 6 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 service | case |
| 8 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 piece | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 complete | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 complete | cc |
| 11 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 12 complete | advmod |
| 12 | complete | complete | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 duty | det |
| 14 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 complete | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 son | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 son | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 son | amod |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 duty | nmod |
| 19 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 22 father | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 father | det |
| 21 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 father | compound |
| 22 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 complete | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | me | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | piece | this | of service | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | complete | infinitive | you not said here | the duty of a good son | toward a tender father; thereby property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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