The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 20

"Sire," answered the princess, "the voices all come from the tree which is straight in front of us; and if you will deign to advance a few steps, you will see that they become clearer."

Who acts: Sire, all, tree, princess, voices · What happens: answer, come, be, deign, advance, see · To what, where: voices, princess, tree, front, few steps · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, all, tree, princess), 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	_	2 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 voices	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 voices	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 voices	det
11	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 answered	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 come	nsubj
13	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 voices	acl:relcl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 front	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 front	cop
19	straight	straight	ADV	_	21 front	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 front	case
21	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tree	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 front	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 deign	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 deign	cc
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 deign	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 deign	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 deign	aux
29	deign	deign	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 answered	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 advance	mark
31	advance	advance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 deign	xcomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 steps	det
33	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 steps	amod
34	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 advance	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 see	punct
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 see	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 see	aux
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 deign	conj
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 become	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 become	nsubj
41	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 see	ccomp
42	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 become	xcomp
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 deign	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 deign	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Sire	the voices	the princess			tree rules
2	come in a quote	present	all	the voices not said here		the tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	the tree			front	of us; straight property	tree rules
4	deign a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	the princess = princess					tree rules
5	advance in a quote	to-infinitive	the princess = princess not said here	a few steps				vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer step=Patient
6	see in a quote	future	the princess = princess					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	become in a quote	present	voices = voice				clear property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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