The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 60
All three remained silent, and he hastened to continue: "Do not be afraid, I have not the slightest intention of giving you pain, and let me tell you at once, that I know the wishes formed by each one.
Who acts: three, heart, words, slightest intention · What happens: remain, hasten, continue, not be, have, give · To what, where: slightest intention, pain, you, words, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (three, heart, words, slightest intention), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hastened | cc |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 continue | mark |
| 10 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hastened | xcomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 afraid | punct |
| 13 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 afraid | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 afraid | cop |
| 16 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hastened | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 afraid | conj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 intention | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 intention | det |
| 22 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 intention | amod |
| 23 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 25 giving | mark |
| 25 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 intention | acl |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 giving | iobj |
| 27 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 giving | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 let | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 let | cc |
| 30 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 afraid | conj |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 let | obj |
| 32 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 let | xcomp |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 tell | iobj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 once | case |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 tell | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 know | punct |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 know | mark |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 know | nsubj |
| 39 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 tell | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wishes | det |
| 41 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 know | obj |
| 42 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 wishes | acl |
| 43 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 44 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 formed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | all three | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | heart | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | continue | to-infinitive | heart not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | heart not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | words = word | the slightest intention | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent intention=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give in a quote | gerund | the slightest intention not said here | pain | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pain=Theme | |||
| 7 | let in a quote | infinitive | heart not said here | words = word | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | words = word not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 9 | know in a quote | present | words = word | the wishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer wish=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | form in a quote | participle | the wishes not said here | by each one | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by one=Location |
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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