The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 25
"My husband," answered the wife, "beware, I pray, of your doing anything so base!
Who acts: husband, wife · What happens: answer, beware, pray, do · To what, where: wife, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 husband | nmod:poss |
| 3 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 husband | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beware | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 beware | punct |
| 11 | beware | beware | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pray | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pray | nsubj |
| 14 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beware | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 doing | punct |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 doing | mark |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 pray | ccomp |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 doing | obj |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 base | advmod |
| 21 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 doing | obl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | My husband | the wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | beware in a quote | infinitive | My husband not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | pray in a quote | present | My husband = husband | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | gerund | the wife = wife | anything | base obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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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