--- title: Let him be never so ugly or deformed I shall be so far from being fr… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg503:53:9 # text = 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.” 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 so so ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 deformed deform VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 10 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 cop _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ _ 14 from from SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 advcl _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 that that ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 honor honor VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 love love VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/10/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/53/)