The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 24

For ourselves, we think you would be fortunate if the king your father should allow you to marry anyone so amiable.

Who acts: we, you, king · What happens: think, be, allow, marry · To what, where: you, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 ourselves	case
2	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 think	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ourselves	punct
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 think	nsubj
5	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fortunate	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fortunate	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 fortunate	cop
9	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 think	ccomp
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 allow	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allow	nsubj
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 allow	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 allow	aux
16	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fortunate	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 allow	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 allow	xcomp
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 marry	obj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 amiable	advmod
22	amiable	amiable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 marry	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	we			for ourselves	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	you			fortunate property	tree rules
3	allow a condition, not said to happen	should	the king		you		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer you=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king not said here	anyone		amiable property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=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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