The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 64

"It would be an excellent thing to do," returned the grand-vizir, "but how do you propose to accomplish it?"

Who acts: practice, you · What happens: be, do, return, propose, accomplish · To what, where: excellent thing, grand vizir, practice

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 (practice, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 thing	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	excellent	excellent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 returned	punct
12	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 vizir	det
14	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vizir	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 grand	punct
16	vizir	vizir	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 returned	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 propose	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 propose	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 propose	aux
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 propose	nsubj
23	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thing	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 accomplish	mark
25	accomplish	accomplish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 propose	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 accomplish	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a in a quote	would	practice	a excellent thing	tree rules
2	do in a quote	to-infinitive			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	return	past	practice not said here	the grand vizir	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizir=Theme
4	propose in a quote	present · do-support	you		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	accomplish in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	practice	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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