The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5, sentence 9

Let him be never so ugly or deformed I shall be so far from being frightened at the sight of him that, as our brother, I shall honor and love him.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: let, not be, deform, be, frighten, honor · To what, where: Ahmed, sight

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 (you, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 ugly	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 ugly	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 ugly	advmod
6	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 deformed	cc
8	deformed	deform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 ugly	conj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 far	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 far	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 far	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 far	advmod
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 honor	advmod
14	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 frightened	mark
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 frightened	aux:pass
16	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 honor	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 sight	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sight	det
19	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 frightened	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sight	nmod
22	that	that	ADV	_	16 frightened	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brother	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 brother	case
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 brother	nmod:poss
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 frightened	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 frightened	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 honor	nsubj
29	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 honor	aux
30	honor	honor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 love	cc
32	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 honor	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 love	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	Ahmed			tree rules
2	not is	infinitive				ugly property	tree rules
3	deform	participle					vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	is	shall	I			far property	tree rules
5	frighten	gerund · passive	I not said here		the sight of Ahmed	that property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	honor	shall	I				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	love	infinitive	I not said here	Ahmed			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
8	sight			Ahmed			nom sight «cognition 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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