The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 3
What arms can I make use of to reduce him to my will?
Who acts: arms · What happens: make, reduce · To what, where: use, Prince
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 (arms), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 make | obj |
| 2 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 9 reduce | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 reduce | mark |
| 9 | reduce | reduce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reduce | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 will | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 will | nmod:poss |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 reduce | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | arms | use | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset what=Beneficiary use=Product | ||||
| 2 | reduce | to-infinitive | arms not said here | Prince | vn limit-76 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=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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