The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 4
Tuck up your gown and go through them without touching anything, or you will die instantly.
Who acts: you · What happens: tuck up, go, touch, die · To what, where: gown, anything
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Tuck | tuck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Tuck | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 gown | nmod:poss |
| 4 | gown | gown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tuck | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 go | cc |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tuck | conj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 touching | mark |
| 10 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 go | advcl |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 touching | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 die | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 die | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 die | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 die | aux |
| 16 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tuck | conj |
| 17 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 16 die | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck up | imperative | you not said here | your gown | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | through steps = step | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | you not said here | anything | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme anything=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | die | future | you | instantly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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