The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 30

"When I saw you on the sea-shore I took a great fancy to you, and wished to try your good nature, so I presented myself in the disguise you saw.

Who acts: wife, you · What happens: see, take, wish, try, present · To what, where: you, sea shore, great fancy, good nature, wife, disguise

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 (wife, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 shore	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shore	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shore	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 sea	punct
10	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shore	acl:relcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fancy	det
14	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fancy	amod
15	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 took	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wished	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wished	cc
20	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 try	mark
22	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 wished	xcomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 nature	nmod:poss
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 nature	amod
25	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 try	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 presented	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	29 presented	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 presented	nsubj
29	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
30	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	29 presented	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 disguise	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 disguise	det
33	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 presented	obl
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 saw	nsubj
35	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 disguise	acl:relcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	see in a quote	past	wife	you		the sea shore	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	take in a quote	past	wife	a great fancy	you		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme to you=Destination
3	wish in a quote	past	wife not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	try not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	wife not said here	your good nature			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Eventuality
5	present in a quote	past	wife	wife		the disguise	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme
6	see in a quote	past	you	the disguise not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer disguise=Stimulus

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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