The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 51

But don’t let that frighten you: I’ll give you means to pass by them without any danger.”

Who acts: you, that, I · What happens: not let, frighten, give, mean, pass · To what, where: that, you

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, that, I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 let	cc
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 let	obj
6	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 let	xcomp
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 frighten	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 give	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 give	nsubj
10	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 means	nsubj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 give	iobj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 let	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pass	mark
15	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 means	xcomp
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pass	obl
18	without	without	ADP	_	20 danger	case
19	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	20 danger	det
20	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pass	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not let	imperative · do-support	you not said here	that			tree rules
2	frighten	infinitive	that not said here	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	give	future	I		you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	mean	present					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pass not said to happen	to-infinitive				by Lions = lion; without any danger	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by they=Location

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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