The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 51

It would be impossible to describe his joy; he kissed the talisman repeatedly, wrapped it up, and carefully tied it round his arm.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, describe, kiss, wrap up, tie, joy · To what, where: joy, talisman, scene

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 (Prince), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 impossible	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	cop
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 describe	mark
6	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 impossible	csubj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 joy	nmod:poss
8	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 describe	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 kissed	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kissed	nsubj
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 talisman	det
13	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 kissed	obj
14	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	_	11 kissed	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wrapped	punct
16	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 kissed	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wrapped	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 wrapped	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tied	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tied	cc
21	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	22 tied	advmod
22	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 impossible	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tied	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 arm	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 arm	nmod:poss
26	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tied	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would			impossible property	tree rules
2	describe	to-infinitive		Prince's joy		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent joy=Theme
3	kiss	past	Prince	the talisman	repeatedly property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talisman=Co-Agent
4	wrap up	past	Prince not said here	scene		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	tie	past		scene	round Prince's arm; carefully property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	joy		Prince			nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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