The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 45
I never pass a day without going to gaze on this incomparable beauty, and I am sure that if you would only accompany me you would think the sight well worth the trouble, and own that you never saw such loveliness before."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not pass, go, gaze, be, accompany, think · To what, where: me, sight, such loveliness
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pass | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 pass | advmod |
| 3 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pass | obj |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 7 going | mark |
| 7 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pass | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 gaze | mark |
| 9 | gaze | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 going | xcomp |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 beauty | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 beauty | det |
| 12 | incomparable | incomparable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beauty | amod |
| 13 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gaze | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sure | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sure | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sure | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sure | cop |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pass | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 think | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 accompany | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 accompany | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 accompany | aux |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 accompany | advmod |
| 24 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 think | advcl |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 accompany | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 think | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 think | aux |
| 28 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sure | ccomp |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sight | det |
| 30 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 think | obj |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 think | advmod |
| 32 | worth | worth | ADP | _ | 34 trouble | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 trouble | det |
| 34 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 think | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 own | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 own | cc |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sure | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 saw | mark |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 saw | advmod |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 own | advcl |
| 42 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 loveliness | amod |
| 43 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | obj |
| 44 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 saw | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pass | present | I | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | gaze | to-infinitive | I not said here | on this incomparable beauty | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on beauty=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | accompany a condition, not said to happen | would | you | me | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | would | you | the sight | worth the trouble; well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sight=Theme | |||
| 7 | not see | past | you | such loveliness | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loveliness=Stimulus |
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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