The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 74
"My son, the great thing now is to arrange how you can best carry off this treasure as secretly as possible for fear of losing it.
Who acts: son, you, fear · What happens: be, carry off, lose · To what, where: treasure
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 (son, you, fear), 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 | _ | 11 arrange | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrange | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | appos |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thing | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 arrange | cop |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 arrange | mark |
| 11 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 carry | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | aux |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 arrange | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carry | compound:prt |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 treasure | det |
| 19 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 secretly | advmod |
| 21 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 possible | mark |
| 23 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 secretly | advcl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 fear | case |
| 25 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 26 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 losing | mark |
| 27 | losing | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 fear | acl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 losing | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 arrange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | My son | arrange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry off in a quote | can | you | this treasure | for fear; secretly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | lose in a quote | gerund | fear not said here | treasure | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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