The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 1

"Princess," he added, "it may be that in your heart you class me with those false lovers whose devotion cannot stand the test of absence.

Who acts: he, it, devotion · What happens: add, be, not stand, test · To what, where: Princess, that, heart, test, absence · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, it, devotion), 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	_	2 Princess	punct
2	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 added	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Princess	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 added	nsubj
6	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 that	nsubj
10	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 that	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 added	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 heart	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heart	nmod:poss
15	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	nmod
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 heart	nsubj
17	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heart	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 heart	iobj
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 lovers	case
20	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 lovers	det
21	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 lovers	amod
22	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 added	obl
23	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	24 devotion	nmod:poss
24	devotion	devotion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stand	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 stand	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 stand	advmod
27	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 lovers	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 test	det
29	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stand	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 absence	case
31	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 test	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 added	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	past	he	Princess		with that false lovers	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with lover=Co-Patient
2	is a in a quote	may	it	that	your heart and class		tree rules
3	not stand in a quote	can	devotion	the test of absence			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer test=Stimulus
4	test in a quote			absence			nom test «cognition transitive»: of=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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