The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 30
Shall I cure the princess in her own presence, or shall I do it from here without seeing her?"
Who acts: I · What happens: cure, do, see · To what, where: princess, own presence, presence
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 cure | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cure | nsubj |
| 3 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cure | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 presence | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 presence | nmod:poss |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 presence | amod |
| 9 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cure | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 do | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 do | cc |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cure | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 do | obl |
| 18 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 19 seeing | mark |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 do | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seeing | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 cure | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | shall | I | the princess | princess's own presence | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source | |||
| 2 | do | shall | I | presence | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | I not said here | princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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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