The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1, sentence 66

I am Prince Percinet, of whose riches you may have heard, and whose fairy gift will, I hope, be of use to you in all your difficulties, if you will permit me to accompany you under this disguise.’

Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, hear, hope, permit, accompany · To what, where: Percinet, me, you, disguise

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 1. 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	4 Percinet	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Percinet	cop
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Percinet	nmod:desc
4	Percinet	Percinet	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 riches	case
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 riches	nmod:poss
8	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 heard	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
11	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 Percinet	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 will	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 will	cc
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 gift	nmod:poss
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gift	compound
17	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 will	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hope	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 hope	nsubj
21	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Percinet	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hope	punct
23	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hope	xcomp
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 use	case
25	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 be	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 use	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 difficulties	case
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 difficulties	det:predet
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 difficulties	nmod:poss
31	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 you	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 permit	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 permit	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 permit	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 permit	aux
36	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hope	conj
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 permit	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 accompany	mark
39	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 permit	xcomp
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 accompany	obj
41	under	under	ADP	_	43 disguise	case
42	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 disguise	det
43	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 accompany	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 Percinet	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Percinet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	Percinet		Prince nmod:desc	tree rules
2	hear	may · perfect	you			of riches	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of rich=Stimulus
3	hope	present	I				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	be not said to happen	infinitive	I not said here			of use to you	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	permit a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	accompany not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you	this disguise		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme under disguise=Destination

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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