The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 15, sentence 54
I consented gladly, for I did not like standing by idle.
Who acts: I · What happens: consent, not like, stand
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. 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 | 2 consented | nsubj |
| 2 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 2 consented | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 like | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 like | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 like | advmod |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 consented | conj |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 like | xcomp |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 idle | case |
| 12 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 standing | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | I | gladly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not like | past · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | by idle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by idle=Location |
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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