The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 133
If you follow my advice carefully you will find it good."
Who acts: you · What happens: follow, find · To what, where: advice
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 follow | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | advcl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 advice | nmod:poss |
| 5 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 follow | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 find | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow a condition, not said to happen | present | you | my advice | carefully property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | |||
| 2 | find | future | you | advice | good property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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