The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 2

In short, how can he suppose that I should lay hold of a man so well armed, though he is but little?

Who acts: Prince, I · What happens: suppose, lay, be, hold · To what, where: short, hold, man · 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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 suppose	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 suppose	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 suppose	advmod
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 suppose	aux
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 suppose	nsubj
7	suppose	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 lay	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 lay	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 lay	aux
11	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 suppose	ccomp
12	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lay	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 man	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hold	nmod
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 armed	advmod
17	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 armed	advmod
18	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 lay	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 little	punct
20	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 little	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 little	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 little	cop
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 little	cc
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 suppose	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	can	Prince		short		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	lay	should	I	hold of a man			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	is	present	Prince			little property	tree rules
4	hold			a man			nom hold «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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