The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 72

"I would rather have come to anchor anywhere than here," quoth our captain. "

Who acts: Sindbad, I · What happens: come, anchor, quoth · To what, where: captain

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sindbad, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 anchor	mark
8	anchor	anchor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 anchor	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 here	case
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 anywhere	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 quoth	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 quoth	punct
14	quoth	quoth	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 anchor	conj
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 captain	nmod:poss
16	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 quoth	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	would · perfect	Sindbad			tree rules
2	anchor in a quote	to-infinitive	Sindbad not said here		anywhere property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	quoth	infinitive	I not said here	our captain		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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