The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 69

How can I thank you for your goodness towards a stranger, and for what you have done?

Who acts: I, you · What happens: thank, do · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 thank	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	aux
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thank	nsubj
4	thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 thank	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 goodness	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 goodness	nmod:poss
8	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obl
9	towards	towards	ADP	_	11 stranger	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stranger	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 done	cc
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 done	mark
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 done	obj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thank	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	can	I		you			for your goodness; towards a stranger	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for goodness=Attribute
2	do	present · perfect	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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