The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 87
All that has happened to you," they said, "we also have undergone, and we should be enjoying the same happiness still, had we not opened the Golden Door while the princesses were absent.
Who acts: that, wonders, we, princesses · What happens: happen, say, undergo, enjoy, have, not open · To what, where: you, we, same happiness, Golden Door · 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 (that, wonders, we, princesses), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 happened | det:predet |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happened | aux |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 undergone | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 undergone | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 undergone | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 undergone | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 undergone | aux |
| 16 | undergone | undergo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enjoying | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 enjoying | cc |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 enjoying | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 enjoying | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 enjoying | aux |
| 22 | enjoying | enjoy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 undergone | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 happiness | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 happiness | amod |
| 25 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 enjoying | obj |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 enjoying | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 opened | nsubj |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 opened | advmod |
| 31 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 had | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Door | det |
| 33 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Door | amod |
| 34 | Door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 opened | obj |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 39 absent | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 princesses | det |
| 37 | princesses | princess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 absent | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 absent | cop |
| 39 | absent | absent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 opened | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present · perfect | that | you | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | wonders = wonder | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | undergo | present · perfect · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | enjoy | should · progressive | we | the same happiness | still | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer happiness=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | have | past | wonders = wonder not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not open | past | we | the Golden Door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the princesses | absent 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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