The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 73
"As far as I can see," said the princess, "the first thing is not to mind the tumult of the voices that follow you till you reach the cage, and then never to look behind.
Who acts: princess, first thing, voices, you · What happens: see, say, not be, follow, reach, not look · To what, where: you, cage · 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 (princess, first thing, voices, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 far | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 far | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mind | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 mind | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 thing | amod |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mind | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 mind | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 mind | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 mind | mark |
| 21 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tumult | det |
| 23 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mind | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 voices | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 voices | det |
| 26 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 tumult | nmod |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 follow | nsubj |
| 28 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 voices | acl:relcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 follow | obj |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 32 reach | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 reach | nsubj |
| 32 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 follow | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cage | det |
| 34 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 reach | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 look | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 look | cc |
| 37 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 look | advmod |
| 38 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 look | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 look | mark |
| 40 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 mind | advcl |
| 41 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 40 look | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | can | the princess = princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | far property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | the first thing | mind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | present | the voices | you | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reach in a quote | present | you | the cage | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cage=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not look in a quote | to-infinitive | the first thing not said here | then | behind property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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