The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 43

I can remember reading "The Arabian Nights" when I was six years old, in dirty yellow old volumes of small type with no pictures, and I hope children who read them with Mr. Ford's pictures will be as happy as I was then in the company of Aladdin and Sindbad the Sailor.

Who acts: I, children · What happens: remember, read, be, hope · To what, where: Arabian Nights, pictures, company · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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, children), 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 remember	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	aux
3	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	reading	read	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remember	xcomp
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Nights	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Nights	det
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Nights	amod
8	Nights	Night	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 reading	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Nights	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 old	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 old	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 old	cop
13	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 years	nummod
14	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	obl:unmarked
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reading	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 volumes	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	21 volumes	case
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 volumes	amod
19	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 volumes	amod
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 volumes	amod
21	volumes	volume	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 old	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 type	case
23	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 type	amod
24	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 volumes	nmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 pictures	case
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 pictures	det
27	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 type	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hope	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hope	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hope	nsubj
31	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	parataxis
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 happy	nsubj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 read	nsubj
34	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 children	acl:relcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 read	obj
36	with	with	ADP	_	40 pictures	case
37	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Ford	nmod:desc
38	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 pictures	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 Ford	case
40	pictures	picture	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 read	obl
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 happy	aux
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 happy	cop
43	as	as	ADV	_	44 happy	advmod
44	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hope	ccomp
45	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 company	mark
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 company	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 company	cop
48	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	51 company	advmod
49	in	in	ADP	_	51 company	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 company	det
51	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 happy	xcomp
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 Aladdin	case
53	Aladdin	Aladdin	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 company	nmod
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 Sindbad	cc
55	Sindbad	Sindbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Aladdin	conj
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 Sailor	det
57	Sailor	Sailor	PROPN	Number=Sing	53 Aladdin	appos
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remember	can	I					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	read	gerund	I not said here	the Arabian Nights				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent night=Topic
3	is	past	I			year	old property	tree rules
4	hope	present	I					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	read	present	children	pictures = picture			with Ford Mr.'s pictures	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
6	is	future	children				happy property	tree rules
7	is	past	I		the company	then	of Aladdin and Sindbad	tree rules

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 Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 128 (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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