The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 34

"Sire," said the princess to her father, "you wish me to marry, and I know you desire to please me, for which I am very grateful.

Who acts: Sire, you · What happens: say, wish, marry, know, desire, please · To what, where: princess, Sire · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sire, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 wish	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 wish	nsubj
14	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 wish	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 marry	mark
17	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wish	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 know	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 desire	nsubj
23	desire	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 know	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 please	mark
25	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 desire	xcomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 please	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grateful	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 which	case
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 grateful	obl
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 grateful	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 grateful	cop
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 grateful	advmod
33	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 please	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sire	the princess		to princess's father	tree rules
2	wish in a quote	present	you		Sire		tree rules
3	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	know in a quote	present	Sire				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	desire in a quote	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	please not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Sire			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer
7	is in a quote	present	Sire			grateful 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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