The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 122
"If you will take off the cover," he said, "I will repay you."
Who acts: you, genius · What happens: take off, say, repay · To what, where: cover, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, genius), 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cover | det |
| 8 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 repay | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 repay | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 repay | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 repay | aux |
| 17 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 repay | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 repay | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the cover | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | genius | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | repay in a quote | future | genius | you | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
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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