The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 49

The Prince returned and told the Fairy what his father had said; “There’s a great deal of wickedness in this demand?” she answered, “as you will understand by what I am going to tell you.

Who acts: Prince, father, horse, you · What happens: return, tell, say, answer, understand, go · To what, where: Fairy, you, wickedness · 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, father, horse, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Prince	det
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 returned	nsubj
3	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 Fairy	nmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	aux
12	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 what	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 ’s	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 ’s	punct
15	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 ’s	expl
16	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 answered	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ’s	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 wickedness	case
21	wickedness	wickedness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deal	nmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 demand	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 demand	det
24	demand	demand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wickedness	nmod
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 deal	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 ’s	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 returned	parataxis
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 understand	mark
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 understand	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 understand	aux
34	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 answered	ccomp
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 what	case
36	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 understand	obl
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 going	nsubj
38	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 going	aux
39	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 what	acl:relcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 tell	mark
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 going	xcomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 tell	iobj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	return	past	the Prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Prince not said here		the Fairy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	Prince's father			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert	past	horse			tree rules
5	understand in a quote	future	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	go in a quote	present · progressive	horse			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	horse not said here		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
8	deal in a quote			wickedness in this demand		nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient

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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