The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 53

"I don't like to contradict a lady," said Danhasch, "but you must really permit me to doubt any mortal being as beautiful as my princess."

Who acts: Danhasch, you · What happens: not like, contradict, say, permit, doubt, be · To what, where: lady, Danhasch · 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 (Danhasch, 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	_	5 like	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 like	advmod
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 contradict	mark
7	contradict	contradict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lady	det
9	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 contradict	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	Danhasch	Danhasch	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 permit	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 permit	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 permit	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 permit	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 permit	aux
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 permit	advmod
20	permit	permit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 permit	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 doubt	mark
23	doubt	doubt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 permit	xcomp
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 beautiful	det
25	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 beautiful	amod
26	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 beautiful	cop
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 beautiful	advmod
28	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 doubt	ccomp
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 princess	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 princess	nmod:poss
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 beautiful	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 permit	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 permit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not like in a quote	present · do-support	Danhasch			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	contradict not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Danhasch not said here	a lady		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Danhasch			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	permit in a quote	must	you	Danhasch		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	doubt not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	gerund	you not said here		as my princess; beautiful 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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