The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 82

"Madam, I must confess that I should deceive you were I to declare one to be handsomer than the other.

Who acts: Madam, Caschcasch · What happens: confess, deceive, be, declare · To what, where: you, Caschcasch, one · 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 (Madam, Caschcasch), 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 Madam	punct
2	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 confess	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Madam	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 confess	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 confess	aux
6	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 deceive	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 deceive	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 deceive	aux
10	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 confess	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 deceive	obj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 I	cop
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 you	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 declare	mark
15	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 deceive	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 declare	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	19 handsomer	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 handsomer	cop
19	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 declare	xcomp
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 other	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 handsomer	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confess in a quote	must	Madam			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	deceive in a quote	should	Caschcasch	you		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	is a in a quote	past	Caschcasch not said here	Caschcasch		tree rules
4	declare speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive	Caschcasch not said here	one		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Attribute
5	is in a quote	to-infinitive	Caschcasch not said here		than the other; handsome 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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