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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

punctadvmodadvmodmarknsubjauxadvclpunctpunctdetobjpunctpunctdetamodnsubjcopadvmodmarkccompdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclobjmarknsubjadvcldetobjpunctccadvmodadvmodmarkadvcladvmodpunctroot"PUNCTAsADVfarADVasSCONJIPRONcanAUXseeVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETprincessNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTtheDETfirstADJthingNOUNisAUXnotPARTtoPARTmindVERBtheDETtumultNOUNofADPtheDETvoicesNOUNthatPRONfollowVERByouPRONtillSCONJyouPRONreachVERBtheDETcageNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVneverADVtoPARTlookVERBbehindADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1""PUNCT_3 farpunct
2AsasADV_3 faradvmod
3farfarADVDegree=Pos10 saidadvmod
4asasSCONJ_7 seemark
5IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs7 seensubj
6cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin7 seeaux
7seeseeVERBVerbForm=Inf3 faradvcl
8,,PUNCT_3 farpunct
9""PUNCT_3 farpunct
10saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 princessdet
12princessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing10 saidobj
13,,PUNCT_21 mindpunct
14""PUNCT_21 mindpunct
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 thingdet
16firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord17 thingamod
17thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing21 mindnsubj
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 mindcop
19notnotPARTPolarity=Neg21 mindadvmod
20totoPART_21 mindmark
21mindmindVERBVerbForm=Inf10 saidccomp
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 tumultdet
23tumulttumultNOUNNumber=Sing21 mindobj
24ofofADP_26 voicescase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 voicesdet
26voicesvoiceNOUNNumber=Plur23 tumultnmod
27thatthatPRONPronType=Rel28 follownsubj
28followfollowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin26 voicesacl:relcl
29youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs28 followobj
30tilltillSCONJ_32 reachmark
31youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs32 reachnsubj
32reachreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 followadvcl
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 cagedet
34cagecageNOUNNumber=Sing32 reachobj
35,,PUNCT_40 lookpunct
36andandCCONJ_40 lookcc
37thenthenADVPronType=Dem40 lookadvmod
38neverneverADVPronType=Neg40 lookadvmod
39totoPART_40 lookmark
40looklookVERBVerbForm=Inf21 mindadvcl
41behindbehindADV_40 lookadvmod
42..PUNCT_10 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1see in a quotecanthe princess = princessvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2say speech: assertpastthe princessfar propertyvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3not is in a quotepresentthe first thingmind propertytree rules
4follow in a quotepresentthe voicesyouvn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5reach in a quotepresentyouthe cagevn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cage=Theme
6not look in a quoteto-infinitivethe first thing not said herethenbehind propertyvn 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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