The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 105
I am burning with impatience to test its charms."
Who acts: I · What happens: burn, test · To what, where: charms
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 (I), 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 burning | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 burning | aux |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 impatience | case |
| 5 | impatience | impatience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burning | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 test | mark |
| 7 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 burning | advcl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 charms | nmod:poss |
| 9 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 test | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 burning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | present · progressive | I | with impatience | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with impatience=Theme | ||||
| 2 | test | to-infinitive | I not said here | impatience's charms | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Theme |
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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