The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 75

"I will teach you how to give me so much trouble," said the lion, and opening his huge mouth he advanced to swallow her.

Who acts: lion · What happens: teach, give, say, open, advance, swallow · To what, where: you, much trouble, lion, huge mouth, treaty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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	_	4 teach	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 teach	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 teach	aux
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 teach	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 give	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 trouble	amod
12	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 opening	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 opening	cc
20	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	advcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 mouth	amod
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 opening	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 advanced	nsubj
25	advanced	advance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 mouth	acl:relcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 swallow	mark
27	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 advanced	xcomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 swallow	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	future	the lion = lion		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	to-infinitive	the lion = lion not said here	much trouble	the lion = lion	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the lion			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	open	gerund	the lion not said here	lion's huge mouth		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
5	advance	past	lion	lion's huge mouth not said here		tree rules
6	swallow	to-infinitive	lion not said here	treaty		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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