The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 81

"But supposing he does!" answered the king, "what is to hinder the horse from descending straight into the sea, or dashing him to pieces on the rocks?"

Who acts: rapidity, king · What happens: suppose, do, answer, be, descend, dash · To what, where: sea, rapidity, rocks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rapidity, king), 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 supposing	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 supposing	cc
3	supposing	suppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 answered	ccomp
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 does	nsubj
5	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 supposing	ccomp
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 supposing	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 supposing	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hinder	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 hinder	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 hinder	obj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 hinder	cop
15	to	to	PART	_	16 hinder	mark
16	hinder	hinder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horse	det
18	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hinder	obj
19	from	from	SCONJ	_	20 descending	mark
20	descending	descend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 hinder	advcl
21	straight	straight	ADV	_	24 sea	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 sea	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sea	det
24	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 descending	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dashing	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 dashing	cc
27	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 descending	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dashing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 pieces	case
30	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dashing	obl
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 rocks	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 rocks	det
33	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dashing	obl
34	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	gerund					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	do in a quote	present	rapidity				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: express	past	the king				tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the king not said here			hinder property	tree rules
5	descend in a quote	gerund	the king not said here	the sea			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sea=Theme
6	dash in a quote	gerund	the king not said here	rapidity	the rocks	to pieces result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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