The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 56
To see these beautiful trees one would imagine it was inhabited, but it is a dangerous place to stop long in."
Who acts: one, place · What happens: see, imagine, inhabit, be, stop · To what, where: beautiful trees, place, dangerous place
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, place), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 see | mark |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 trees | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trees | amod |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 see | obj |
| 6 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 imagine | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 imagine | aux |
| 8 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trees | acl:relcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inhabited | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 inhabited | aux:pass |
| 11 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 imagine | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 place | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 place | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 place | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 place | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 17 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 place | amod |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stop | mark |
| 20 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 place | acl |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 stop | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 stop | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | to-infinitive | this beautiful trees | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | imagine | would | one | this beautiful trees not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent tree=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | inhabit | past · passive | place | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | place | a dangerous place | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stop | to-infinitive | long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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