The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 64
The women will think that I am displeased at my wife's dress and will lead her away to put on a finer one, and I on my side shall replace the one I am wearing with another yet more splendid.
Who acts: women, wife, I · What happens: think, displease, lead away, put, replace, wear · To what, where: I, dress, wife, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, wife, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 women | det |
| 2 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 displeased | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 displeased | nsubj |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 displeased | aux:pass |
| 8 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 think | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dress | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 wife | case |
| 13 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 displeased | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lead | cc |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lead | aux |
| 16 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lead | obj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 lead | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 put | mark |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 lead | xcomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 one | det |
| 23 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 one | amod |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 replace | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 replace | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 replace | nsubj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 side | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 side | nmod:poss |
| 30 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 I | nmod |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 replace | aux |
| 32 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | parataxis |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 one | det |
| 34 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 replace | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 wearing | nsubj |
| 36 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 wearing | aux |
| 37 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 replace | conj |
| 38 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 42 splendid | mark |
| 39 | another | another | PRON | PronType=Ind | 42 splendid | nsubj |
| 40 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 42 splendid | advmod |
| 41 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 42 splendid | advmod |
| 42 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wearing | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | future | the women | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | displease | present · passive | I | my wife's dress | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | lead away | future | the women not said here | wife | away property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 4 | put | to-infinitive | wife not said here | on a finer one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on one=Destination | ||||
| 5 | replace | shall | I | the one | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-Theme | ||||
| 6 | wear | present · progressive | I | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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