The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 69
She only lives to please you, and loves you with all her soul."
Who acts: mother · What happens: live, please, love · To what, where: you
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 (mother), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 please | mark |
| 5 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lives | xcomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 please | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loves | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 loves | cc |
| 9 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lives | conj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 loves | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 soul | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 soul | det:predet |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loves | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | mother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | mother not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | love | present | mother not said here | you | with mother's soul | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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