The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 10
The sun has tanned her complexion, but when she has been two or three times to the bath, and is fittingly dressed, you will see how much her beauty will be increased."
Who acts: you · What happens: tan, be, dress, see, increase · To what, where: sun, two times, much beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tanned | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tanned | aux |
| 4 | tanned | tan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 complexion | nmod:poss |
| 6 | complexion | complexion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tanned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 times | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 times | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 been | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 been | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 been | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 times | cop |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 three | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 two | conj |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tanned | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 bath | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bath | det |
| 19 | bath | bath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 times | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dressed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 dressed | cc |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dressed | aux:pass |
| 23 | fittingly | fittingly | ADV | _ | 24 dressed | advmod |
| 24 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dressed | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tanned | parataxis |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beauty | amod |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 increased | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 increased | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 increased | aux:pass |
| 35 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | ccomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tan | present · perfect · passive | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | participle | two times | to the bath | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dress | present · passive | you not said here | fittingly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 4 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | increase | future · passive | Khacan's much beauty | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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