The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 91

It contains many curious things the chief being that when you cut off my head, if your majesty will turn to the sixth leaf, and read the third line of the left-hand page, my head will answer all the questions you like to ask it."

Who acts: majesty, you, head · What happens: contain, cut off, be, read, answer, like · To what, where: many curious things, head, third line, questions, majesty

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 (majesty, you, head), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 contains	nsubj
2	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
4	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 things	amod
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 contains	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chief	det
7	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 things	appos
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 turn	cop
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 turn	mark
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 cut	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 cut	nsubj
12	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	advcl
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 cut	compound:prt
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cut	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 turn	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 turn	mark
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 majesty	nmod:poss
19	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	aux
21	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 chief	acl:relcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 leaf	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 leaf	det
24	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 leaf	amod
25	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 turn	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 read	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 read	cc
28	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 turn	parataxis
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 line	det
30	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 line	amod
31	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 read	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	37 page	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 page	det
34	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hand	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
36	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 page	compound
37	page	page	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 line	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 answer	punct
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 head	nmod:poss
40	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 answer	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 answer	aux
42	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 read	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 questions	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 questions	det
45	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 answer	obj
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 like	nsubj
47	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 questions	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	49 ask	mark
49	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 like	xcomp
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ask	obj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 contains	punct
52	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 contains	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	contain	present	majesty	many curious things			vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme
2	cut off	present	you	my head			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	is a condition, not said to happen	future · gerund	your majesty			to the sixth leaf; turn property	tree rules
4	read	past		the third line of the hand page			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Topic
5	answer speech: assert	future	my head	all questions			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
6	like	present	you	all questions not said here			tree rules
7	ask speech: ask not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		majesty		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient

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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