The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 29

I answered that whatever might be the consequence I wished to have my curiosity satisfied, and that I would take the result on my own head.

Who acts: I, whatever · What happens: answer, be, wish, have, take · To what, where: consequence, curiosity, result, own head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, whatever), 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	2 answered	nsubj
2	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 consequence	mark
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 consequence	nsubj
5	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 consequence	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 consequence	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 consequence	det
8	consequence	consequence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 answered	ccomp
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wished	nsubj
10	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 consequence	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 have	mark
12	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wished	xcomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 curiosity	nmod:poss
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 have	obj
15	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 have	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 take	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 take	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 answered	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 result	det
23	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 head	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 head	amod
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	I				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	might	whatever	the consequence			tree rules
3	wish	past	I	the consequence not said here			tree rules
4	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	my curiosity		satisfied property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient
5	take	would	I	the result	my own head		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent result=Theme on head=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 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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