The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 27

How shameful it would be to have to confess that you had betrayed your trust and broken the seal of the vase!

Who acts: it, you, your · What happens: be, confess, betray, break, trust · To what, where: trust, seal

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 (it, you, your), 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	2 shameful	advmod
2	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 have	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 have	aux
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 confess	mark
9	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	xcomp
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 betrayed	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 betrayed	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 betrayed	aux
13	betrayed	betray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 confess	ccomp
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 trust	nmod:poss
15	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 betrayed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 broken	cc
17	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 betrayed	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 seal	det
19	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 broken	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 vase	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vase	det
22	vase	vase	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seal	nmod
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	would	it		have property	tree rules
2	confess	to-infinitive				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	betray	past · perfect	you	your trust		tree rules
4	break	participle	you not said here	the seal of the vase		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer seal=Patient
5	trust		your			nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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