The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 28
And in order to make the spectacle as impressive as possible, I would suggest that she should be richly dressed and covered with the noblest jewels of the crown."
Who acts: I · What happens: make, suggest, dress, cover · To what, where: spectacle, princess
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 make | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 make | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 make | mark |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spectacle | det |
| 7 | spectacle | spectacle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 impressive | advmod |
| 9 | impressive | impressive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 make | xcomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 possible | mark |
| 11 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 impressive | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suggest | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suggest | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 suggest | aux |
| 15 | suggest | suggest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 dressed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 dressed | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dressed | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 dressed | aux:pass |
| 20 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 21 dressed | advmod |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 suggest | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 covered | cc |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dressed | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 jewels | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 jewels | det |
| 26 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 jewels | amod |
| 27 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 crown | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crown | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 jewels | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | to-infinitive | the spectacle | impressive property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spectacle=Product | ||||
| 2 | suggest speech: suggest | would | I | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dress | should · passive | princess | richly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | with the noblest jewels of the crown | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |
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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