The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 26

You must therefore picture to yourself the most perfect features, joined to a brilliant and delicate complexion, and an enchanting expression, and even then imagination will fall short of the reality.

Who acts: You, imagination · What happens: picture, join, enchant, fall · To what, where: yourself, perfect features

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, imagination), 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	4 picture	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 picture	aux
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	4 picture	advmod
4	picture	picture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 yourself	case
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 picture	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 features	det
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 perfect	advmod
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 features	amod
10	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 picture	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 joined	punct
12	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 features	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	18 complexion	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 complexion	det
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 complexion	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 delicate	cc
17	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 brilliant	conj
18	complexion	complexion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joined	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 expression	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 expression	cc
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 expression	det
22	enchanting	enchant	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 expression	amod
23	expression	expression	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 picture	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fall	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fall	cc
26	even	even	ADV	_	27 then	advmod
27	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 fall	advmod
28	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fall	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fall	aux
30	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 picture	parataxis
31	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 fall	xcomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 reality	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 reality	det
34	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 short	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 picture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	picture	must	You		yourself		therefore property	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to yourself=be'
2	join	participle		the perfect features not said here			to a brilliant complexion	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to complexion=Co-Patient
3	enchant	gerund						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	fall	future	imagination			then	short property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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