The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 97
All this the enchantress told me to add to my troubles.
Who acts: enchantress, my · What happens: tell, add, trouble · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enchantress, my), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 enchantress | det:predet |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 All | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 enchantress | det |
| 4 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 add | mark |
| 8 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 troubles | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 troubles | nmod:poss |
| 11 | troubles | trouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 add | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | all enchantress | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | all enchantress not said here | to my troubles | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to trouble=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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