The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 22, sentence 74
Your Majesty fears his growing idle and careless, and doubtless you are right.
Who acts: Majesty, doubtless · What happens: fear, grow, be
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 (Majesty, doubtless), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fears | nsubj |
| 3 | fears | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 growing | nsubj |
| 5 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 fears | xcomp |
| 6 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 growing | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 careless | cc |
| 8 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 idle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 right | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 right | cc |
| 11 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 right | nsubj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 right | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 right | cop |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fears | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | Your Majesty | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | Majesty | idle property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | doubtless | right property | 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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