The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 7, sentence 59
Of course I did not dream of refusing him anything he asked, and gave the promise without the least hesitation.
Who acts: I, cousin · What happens: not dream, refuse, ask, give · To what, where: cousin, promise
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, cousin), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dream | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 dream | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dream | advmod |
| 6 | dream | dream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 refusing | mark |
| 8 | refusing | refuse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dream | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 refusing | obj |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 refusing | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 anything | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dream | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 promise | det |
| 17 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 hesitation | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hesitation | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 hesitation | amod |
| 21 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | past · do-support | I | of course | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | refuse | gerund | I not said here | cousin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | cousin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | give | past | I not said here | the promise | without the least hesitation | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
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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