The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 72

This means she communicated to the Sultan who declared it the next day to the Prince, in the midst of all his courtiers, in these words: “Son,” said he, “I have one thing more to ask of you, after which I shall expect nothing more from your obedience, nor your interest with your wife.

Who acts: This, infallible, Son, your · What happens: mean, communicate, declare, say, have, ask · To what, where: trouble, midst, interest, more, nothing · 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 (This, infallible, Son, your), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 communicated	nsubj
4	communicated	communicate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 means	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 Sultan	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sultan	det
7	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 communicated	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 declared	nsubj
9	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 declared	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obl:unmarked
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Prince	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 day	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 midst	punct
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 midst	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 midst	det
20	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 declared	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 courtiers	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 courtiers	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 courtiers	nmod:poss
24	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 midst	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 words	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 words	case
27	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 words	det
28	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 courtiers	conj
29	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
30	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
31	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 said	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Son	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 Son	punct
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 means	conj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
37	“	"	PUNCT	_	39 have	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 have	nsubj
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 said	ccomp
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 thing	nummod
41	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 more	obl:unmarked
42	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 have	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 ask	mark
44	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 more	advcl
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 you	case
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 ask	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 expect	punct
48	after	after	ADP	_	49 which	case
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 expect	obl
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 expect	nsubj
51	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 expect	aux
52	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 ask	conj
53	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 expect	obj
54	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	52 expect	advmod
55	from	from	ADP	_	57 obedience	case
56	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 obedience	nmod:poss
57	obedience	obedience	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 more	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 interest	punct
59	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	61 interest	cc
60	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 interest	nmod:poss
61	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	obl
62	with	with	ADP	_	64 wife	case
63	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 wife	nmod:poss
64	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 interest	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	This					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	communicate	participle	infallible				to the Sultan	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	declare speech: other	past		trouble	the midst of Prince's courtiers and this words	day		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	Son	your interest with your wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have in a quote	present	Son	more				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	Son not said here				of you	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient
7	expect in a quote	shall	Son	nothing				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme
8	obey in a quote		your					nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	interest in a quote		your				with your wife	nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent with=obl

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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