The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 62
I allowed myself to be persuaded, put on my richest dress, and took a purse with a hundred pieces of gold.
Who acts: I · What happens: allow, persuade, put, take · To what, where: myself, richest dress, purse
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 (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 allowed | nsubj |
| 2 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 allowed | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 persuaded | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 allowed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 put | punct |
| 8 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 persuaded | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 dress | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 dress | amod |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 allowed | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 purse | det |
| 17 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pieces | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hundred | det |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 pieces | nummod |
| 21 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 took | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gold | case |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pieces | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 allowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | past | I | myself | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer myself=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | put | participle | I not said here | my richest dress | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on dress=Destination | ||||
| 4 | take | past | I not said here | a purse | with hundred pieces of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme |
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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