The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 29

The improvement is not due to the dress alone, but largely to the beautifying effects of the bath.

Who acts: improvement · What happens: not be, beautify, effect · To what, where: bath

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 (improvement), 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 improvement	det
2	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dress	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 dress	advmod
5	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	8 dress	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 due	fixed
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dress	det
8	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	alone	alone	ADV	_	8 dress	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 effects	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 effects	cc
12	largely	largely	ADV	_	16 effects	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 effects	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 effects	det
15	beautifying	beautify	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 effects	amod
16	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dress	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 bath	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bath	det
19	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 effects	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	present	the improvement		due the dress but the beautifying effects of the bath; alone property	tree rules
2	beautify	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	effect			the bath		nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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