The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 19

It is enough for me that he is your husband to engage me to do for him whatever he desires.”

Who acts: reason, Schaibar · What happens: be, engage, do, desire · To what, where: husband, me, whatever

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reason, Schaibar), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 enough	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 enough	cop
3	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 enough	nmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 engage	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 engage	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 husband	cop
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 husband	nmod:poss
10	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 he	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 engage	mark
12	engage	engage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enough	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 engage	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 engage	xcomp
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obl
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 desires	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 desires	nsubj
20	desires	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 do	advcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enough	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 enough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	reason		for me; enough property	tree rules
2	is a	present	Schaibar not said here	your husband		tree rules
3	engage	to-infinitive	Schaibar	me		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme clause=Attribute
4	do	to-infinitive	Schaibar not said here		for Schaibar	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	desire	present	Schaibar	whatever		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=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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