The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 73

And did you do it because your appetite was so small, or did you wish to count the grains so that you might never eat more than a certain number?

Who acts: you, appetite · What happens: do, be, wish, count, not eat · To what, where: rice, grains, more

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, appetite), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 do	cc
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	obj
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 small	mark
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 appetite	nmod:poss
8	appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 small	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 small	cop
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 small	advmod
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 do	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wish	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 wish	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wish	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 wish	nsubj
16	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 small	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 count	mark
18	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wish	xcomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grains	det
20	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 count	obj
21	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 eat	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 so	fixed
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 eat	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 eat	aux
25	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	26 eat	advmod
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 count	advcl
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 eat	obj
28	than	than	ADP	_	31 number	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 number	det
30	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 number	amod
31	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 more	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	you	rice		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	is	past	your appetite		small property	tree rules
3	wish	past · do-support	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	count not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the grains		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme
5	not eat	might	you	more		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient

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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