The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 81

In truth it was a talisman which the Queen of China had given her daughter, telling her it would ensure her happiness as long as she carried it about her.

Who acts: cornelian, Queen · What happens: be, give, tell, ensure, carry · To what, where: talisman, truth, daughter, Queen, happiness, cornelian · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cornelian, Queen), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 truth	case
2	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talisman	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 talisman	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talisman	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 talisman	det
6	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 given	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Queen	det
9	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 given	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 China	case
11	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Queen	nmod
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 given	aux
13	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 talisman	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughter	nmod:poss
15	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 given	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 telling	punct
17	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 given	advcl
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 telling	iobj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ensure	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ensure	aux
21	ensure	ensure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 telling	xcomp
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 happiness	nmod:poss
23	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ensure	obj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ensure	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 carried	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	nsubj
28	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 long	advcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	obj
30	about	about	ADP	_	31 her	case
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talisman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	cornelian	a talisman		truth		tree rules
2	give	past · perfect	the Queen of China	a talisman	Queen's daughter			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient which=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Queen of China not said here		Queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	ensure not said to happen	would	cornelian	Queen's happiness			long property	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition happiness=Theme
5	carry	past	Queen	cornelian			about China	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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