The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 34

"Princess, I have a secret to tell you, and must throw myself on your mercy.

Who acts: Haiatelnefous · What happens: have, tell, throw · To what, where: Princess, you, Haiatelnefous, mercy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Haiatelnefous), 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 Princess	punct
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 secret	det
7	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 secret	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 throw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 throw	cc
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 throw	aux
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	conj
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 throw	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 mercy	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mercy	nmod:poss
18	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Haiatelnefous	Princess			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	throw in a quote	must	Haiatelnefous not said here	Haiatelnefous		your mercy	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent myself=Theme on mercy=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/26/34/