The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 74
It would be enough for me to stand outside and view whatever hidden wonders might be therein.
Who acts: inspiration, me · What happens: be, stand, view · To what, where: whatever
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 (inspiration, me), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 enough | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 enough | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enough | cop |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 stand | mark |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 stand | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stand | mark |
| 8 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 enough | advcl |
| 9 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 8 stand | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 view | cc |
| 11 | view | view | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stand | conj |
| 12 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 view | obj |
| 13 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wonders | amod |
| 14 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 whatever | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 therein | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 therein | cop |
| 17 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 12 whatever | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 enough | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | inspiration | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | me | outside property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | view | infinitive | me not said here | whatever | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | might | therein property | 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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