The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 70
"Let me drink first, and you shall say what you will afterwards."
Who acts: you, princess · What happens: let, drink, say · To what, where: princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 drink | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 say | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 will | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 will | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | ccomp |
| 14 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 13 will | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | infinitive | princess not said here | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | shall | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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