The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 70

"Holy father," answered the princess, "I come from far, and I should be in despair if I turned back without having attained my object.

Who acts: Holy father · What happens: answer, come, be, turn back, attain · To what, where: princess, despair, object · 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 (Holy father), 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 father	punct
2	Holy	holy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 father	amod
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 father	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 father	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	_	12 come	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 come	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 come	nsubj
12	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	parataxis
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 far	case
14	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 despair	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 despair	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 despair	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 despair	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 despair	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 despair	case
21	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	parataxis
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 turned	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 turned	nsubj
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 despair	advcl
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 turned	advmod
26	without	without	SCONJ	_	28 attained	mark
27	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 attained	aux
28	attained	attain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 turned	ccomp
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 object	nmod:poss
30	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 attained	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Holy father		the princess		tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	Holy father = father				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from far=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	should	Holy father = father			despair	tree rules
4	turn back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Holy father = father				tree rules
5	attain in a quote	gerund · perfect	Holy father = father not said here	my object			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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