The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 24
If you manage to avoid this pitfall, and to reach the top of the mountain, you will find there the Talking Bird in a splendid cage, and you can ask of him where you are to seek the Singing Tree and the Golden Water.
Who acts: you · What happens: manage, avoid, reach, find, ask, be · To what, where: pitfall, top, Talking Bird, splendid cage, Singing Tree
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 manage | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 manage | nsubj |
| 3 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 avoid | mark |
| 5 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 manage | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pitfall | det |
| 7 | pitfall | pitfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 avoid | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 reach | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 reach | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 reach | mark |
| 11 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 manage | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 top | det |
| 13 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reach | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mountain | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mountain | det |
| 16 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 manage | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 find | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Bird | det |
| 23 | Talking | Talking | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Bird | compound |
| 24 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 cage | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 cage | det |
| 27 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cage | amod |
| 28 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bird | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ask | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 ask | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 ask | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 ask | aux |
| 33 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 find | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 ask | obl |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 seek | advmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 where | nsubj |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 where | cop |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 seek | mark |
| 40 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 ask | xcomp |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Tree | det |
| 42 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Tree | compound |
| 43 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 seek | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 Water | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Water | det |
| 46 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Water | amod |
| 47 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Tree | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | you not said here | this pitfall | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent pitfall=Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | to-infinitive | you not said here | the top of the mountain | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | future | you | the Talking Bird | a splendid cage; there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | |||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | can | you | of horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S_INF»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | present | you | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | the Singing Tree and the Golden Water | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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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