The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 7
I’ll send for him, and you shall judge of the truth of what I tell you; but be sure to prepare yourself against being frightened at his extraordinary figure when you see him.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: send, judge, tell, be, prepare, frighten · To what, where: truth, you, yourself, danger · 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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 send | nsubj |
| 2 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 send | aux |
| 3 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 send | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 judge | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 judge | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 judge | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 judge | aux |
| 10 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 send | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 truth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 judge | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 truth | nmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | iobj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sure | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 sure | cc |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | cop |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 send | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 prepare | mark |
| 24 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | xcomp |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 prepare | obj |
| 26 | against | against | ADP | _ | 32 figure | case |
| 27 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 figure | cop |
| 28 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 figure | amod |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 figure | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 figure | nmod:poss |
| 31 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 figure | amod |
| 32 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 prepare | obl |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 see | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 prepare | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 see | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | future | I | for danger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | judge | shall | you | the truth | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent truth=Value | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | I not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | prepare | to-infinitive | I not said here | yourself | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | frighten | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is | gerund | against danger's frightened extraordinary figure | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | see | present | you | danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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