The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 49

But since you ask me, I must confess that it lacks three things to make it absolutely perfect."

Who acts: you, I, fault · What happens: ask, confess, lack, make · To what, where: me, three things, fault

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, fault), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 confess	cc
2	since	since	SCONJ	_	4 ask	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 ask	nsubj
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 confess	advcl
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 ask	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 confess	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 confess	aux
9	confess	confess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 lacks	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lacks	nsubj
12	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 confess	advcl
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 things	nummod
14	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lacks	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 lacks	advcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	19 perfect	advmod
19	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	xcomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 confess	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 confess	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	you		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	confess	must	I				vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	lack	present	fault	three things			tree rules
4	make	to-infinitive	fault not said here	fault		perfect property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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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