The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 16

As I could not return home without you, even though I had gained the prizes on which I had set my heart, I forced the Talking Bird to tell me how to break the spell."

Who acts: I, Talking Bird · What happens: not return, gain, set, force, tell, break · To what, where: prizes, heart, Talking Bird, me, spell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Talking Bird), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	5 return	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 return	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 return	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 return	advmod
5	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forced	advcl
6	home	home	ADV	_	5 return	advmod
7	without	without	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 return	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gained	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	14 gained	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	14 gained	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 gained	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gained	aux
14	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 return	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 prizes	det
16	prizes	prize	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 gained	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 set	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 set	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 set	aux
21	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 prizes	acl:relcl
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heart	nmod:poss
23	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 return	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 forced	nsubj
26	forced	force	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Bird	det
28	Talking	Talking	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Bird	compound
29	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 forced	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 forced	xcomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	35 break	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 break	mark
35	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 tell	ccomp
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 spell	det
37	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 break	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 forced	punct
39	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 forced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not return	could	I				without you; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	gain	past · perfect	I	the prizes				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme
3	set	past · perfect	I	my heart		the prizes		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme on which=Destination
4	force	past	I	the Talking Bird				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Talking Bird not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	break not said to happen	to-infinitive		the spell				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=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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