The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 21
“He needs but lead me the way I’ll follow him.”
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: need, lead, 'll, follow · To what, where: Sultan, way
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 (Sultan), 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 | _ | 3 needs | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 lead | cc |
| 5 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 needs | conj |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 lead | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lead | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ’ll | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ’ll | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need in a quote | present | Sultan | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | lead in a quote | infinitive | Sultan not said here | the Sultan = sultan | the way obl | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 3 | 'll in a quote | present | the Sultan = sultan | the way not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | infinitive | the Sultan = sultan not said here | Sultan | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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