The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 68
“Sir,” replied Prince Ahmed, “I have no share in the compliment your Majesty is pleased to make me; all the honor is due to the Fairy my spouse, whose good advice I followed.”
Who acts: Sir, Majesty, honor · What happens: reply, have, be, make, follow · To what, where: Prince Ahmed, share, compliment, Sir, good advice · 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 (Sir, Majesty, honor), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Ahmed | compound |
| 7 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 share | det |
| 13 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 compliment | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 compliment | det |
| 16 | compliment | compliment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pleased | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 pleased | cop |
| 20 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 pleased | xcomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 make | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 honor | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 honor | det |
| 27 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 due | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 due | cop |
| 29 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Fairy | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fairy | det |
| 32 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 due | obl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 spouse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | spouse | spouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 due | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 advice | punct |
| 36 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 38 advice | nmod:poss |
| 37 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 advice | amod |
| 38 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spouse | appos |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 followed | nsubj |
| 40 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 advice | acl:relcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 due | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sir | Prince Ahmed | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ahmed=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Sir | no share | the compliment | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Patient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | your Majesty | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | your Majesty not said here | Sir | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | all honor | to the Fairy; due property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | follow in a quote | past | Sir | my spouse's good advice not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=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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