The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 20
You will then throw the bridle on your horse's neck without any fear of his straying, and will dismount.
Who acts: You, horse · What happens: throw, stray, dismount · To what, where: bridle, neck, fear
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, horse), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 throw | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 throw | advmod |
| 4 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridle | det |
| 6 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 neck | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horse | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 neck | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 horse | case |
| 11 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 12 | without | without | ADP | _ | 14 fear | case |
| 13 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 fear | det |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 throw | obl |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 straying | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 straying | nsubj |
| 17 | straying | stray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 fear | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dismount | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dismount | cc |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dismount | aux |
| 21 | dismount | dismount | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 throw | parataxis |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 throw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | future | You | the bridle | your horse's neck | then | without any fear | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme on neck=Destination | |
| 2 | stray | gerund | horse | any fear not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fear=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dismount | future | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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