The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 67

"Good dervish," answered the princess, "I have heard such glowing descriptions of these three things, that I cannot rest till I possess them."

Who acts: Good dervish · What happens: answer, hear, glow, not rest, possess, describe · To what, where: princess, such glowing descriptions, descriptions, three things · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Good dervish), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dervish	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dervish	amod
3	dervish	dervish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dervish	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 dervish	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 princess	det
8	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
12	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 answered	parataxis
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 descriptions	amod
15	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 descriptions	amod
16	descriptions	description	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 things	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 things	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 things	nummod
20	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 descriptions	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rest	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 rest	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 rest	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 rest	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 rest	advmod
26	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 heard	conj
27	till	till	SCONJ	_	29 possess	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 possess	nsubj
29	possess	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 rest	advcl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 possess	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Good dervish		the princess	tree rules
2	hear in a quote	present · perfect	Good dervish = dervish	such glowing descriptions of this three things		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer description=Stimulus
3	glow in a quote	gerund				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not rest in a quote	can	Good dervish = dervish			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	possess in a quote	present	Good dervish = dervish	descriptions = description		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
6	describe in a quote			this three things		nom description «communication transitive»: of=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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