The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 13
You have had the good grace to fall in with my humour, and to pretend to eat and to drink when nothing was there.
Who acts: You, nothing, my · What happens: have, fall in, pretend, eat, drink, be · To what, where: good grace
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, nothing, my), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | aux |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grace | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grace | amod |
| 6 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fall | mark |
| 8 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 fall | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 humour | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 humour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fall | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pretend | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pretend | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pretend | mark |
| 16 | pretend | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fall | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 eat | mark |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 pretend | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drink | cc |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drink | mark |
| 21 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 eat | conj |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 there | advmod |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 there | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 drink | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present · perfect | You | the good grace | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grace=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fall in | to-infinitive | You not said here | with my humour | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pretend | to-infinitive | You not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | nothing | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | humour | my | nom humour «feeling transitive»: poss=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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