The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 30, sentence 112

I will show you something wonderful; only do you gather up sticks while I kindle a fire."

Who acts: I, you · What happens: show, gather up, kindle · To what, where: something, you, sticks, fire

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 show	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 show	iobj
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 show	obj
6	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 something	amod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 gather	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	11 gather	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 gather	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 gather	nsubj
11	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 show	conj
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 gather	compound:prt
13	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gather	obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 kindle	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 kindle	nsubj
16	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 gather	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fire	det
18	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kindle	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	show	future	I	something	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
2	gather up	present · do-support	you	sticks		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	kindle	infinitive	I	a fire		vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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