The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 100

If you apply a little of it to your left eye you will behold in an instant all the treasures hidden in the bowels of the earth.

Who acts: you · What happens: apply, behold, hide · To what, where: little, treasures, instant, bowels

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 apply	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 apply	nsubj
3	apply	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 behold	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apply	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 little	nmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 eye	case
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eye	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 eye	amod
11	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 apply	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 behold	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 behold	aux
14	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 instant	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 instant	det
17	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 behold	obl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 treasures	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 treasures	det
20	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 behold	obl
21	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 treasures	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 bowels	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bowels	det
24	bowels	bowel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hidden	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 earth	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bowels	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 behold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	apply a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a little of ointment		to your left eye	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
2	behold	future	you	all treasures	a instant		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	hide	participle		all treasures not said here	the bowels of the earth		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bowel=Location

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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