The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 27

I promise that in a very few moments, in presence of all the assembled multitude, you shall see the princess as healthy both in mind and body as ever she was in her life.

Who acts: I, you, princess · What happens: promise, assemble, see, be · To what, where: princess, life

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, princess), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 moments	mark
4	in	in	ADP	_	8 moments	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 moments	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 few	advmod
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moments	amod
8	moments	moment	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 promise	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 presence	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 presence	case
11	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 moments	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 multitude	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 multitude	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 multitude	det
15	assembled	assemble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 multitude	amod
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 presence	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 see	nsubj
19	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 see	aux
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 princess	det
22	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 healthy	case
24	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mind	amod
25	both	both	CCONJ	_	27 mind	cc:preconj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 mind	case
27	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 body	cc
29	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 mind	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 life	mark
31	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 life	advmod
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 life	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 life	cop
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 life	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 life	nmod:poss
36	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I			moment	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	assemble	participle					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	shall	you	the princess			tree rules
4	is	past	princess		princess's life	ever	tree rules

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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