The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 109
Help yourself as freely as if you were at home!
Who acts: you · What happens: help, be · To what, where: yourself
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Help | obj |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 freely | advmod |
| 4 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 1 Help | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 10 home | case |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 as | fixed |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 home | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 home | cop |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 home | case |
| 10 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Help | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | imperative | you not said here | yourself | freely property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | is | past | you | as home | 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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