The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 13, sentence 35
I have only reached this happy state after having for years suffered every possible kind of toil and danger.
Who acts: I · What happens: reach, have, suffer · To what, where: happy state, possible kind, years
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 reached | advmod |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 state | det |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 state | amod |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 having | mark |
| 9 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 reached | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 years | case |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 having | obl |
| 12 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 years | acl |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 kind | det |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kind | amod |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 having | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 toil | case |
| 17 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kind | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 danger | cc |
| 19 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 toil | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present · perfect | I | this happy state | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent state=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | I not said here | every possible kind of toil and danger | year | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | |||
| 3 | suffer | participle | years not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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