The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 33, sentence 91
Giving him one last embrace, I observed accidentally, "What are you going to do with that little box of ointment?
Who acts: I · What happens: give, observe, go, do · To what, where: one last embrace, use
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 | Giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 observed | advcl |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Giving | iobj |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 embrace | nummod |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 embrace | amod |
| 5 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giving | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Giving | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 observed | nsubj |
| 8 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 8 observed | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 12 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 going | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 observed | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 box | case |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 box | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 box | amod |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 ointment | case |
| 23 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 box | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | I not said here | one last embrace | use | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient embrace=Theme | |||
| 2 | observe | past | I | accidentally property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | with that little box of ointment | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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