The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 92

"No," answered the genius; "but that will not prevent me from killing you; and I am only going to grant you one favour, and that is to choose the manner of your death."

Who acts: genius, that, your · What happens: answer, not prevent, kill, go, grant, be · To what, where: genius, you, one favour · 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 (genius, that, your), 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 answered	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 answered	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 answered	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 prevent	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 prevent	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 prevent	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 prevent	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 prevent	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 prevent	advmod
14	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 prevent	obj
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 killing	mark
17	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 prevent	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 killing	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 going	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 going	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 going	aux
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 going	advmod
24	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 answered	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 grant	mark
26	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 grant	obj
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 favour	nummod
29	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grant	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 choose	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 choose	cc
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 choose	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 choose	cop
34	to	to	PART	_	35 choose	mark
35	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 going	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 manner	det
37	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 choose	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 death	case
39	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 death	nmod:poss
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 manner	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 choose	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the genius				tree rules
2	not prevent in a quote	future	that	the genius = genius			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer i=Theme
3	kill in a quote	gerund	that not said here	you			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
4	go in a quote	present · progressive	the genius = genius				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	grant in a quote	to-infinitive	the genius = genius not said here	one favour	you		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent you=Goal favour=Theme
6	is in a quote	present	that			choose property	tree rules
7	die in a quote		your				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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