The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

I tried to turn his thoughts, and presented to him the most beautiful princesses, but he cared for none of them, and, as you see, they have now been united by a horrible death in an underground tomb."

Who acts: I, uncle, you, horrible death · What happens: try, turn, present, care, see, unite · To what, where: thoughts, beautiful princesses, uncle, princesses, underground tomb

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, uncle, you, horrible death), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 turn	mark
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 thoughts	nmod:poss
6	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 turn	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 presented	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 presented	cc
9	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tried	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 presented	obl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 princesses	det
13	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 beautiful	advmod
14	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 princesses	amod
15	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 presented	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cared	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cared	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cared	nsubj
19	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 tried	parataxis
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 none	case
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 cared	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 none	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 see	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 see	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cared	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 united	punct
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 united	nsubj:pass
32	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 united	aux
33	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 united	advmod
34	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 united	aux:pass
35	united	unite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tried	parataxis
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 death	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 death	det
38	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 death	amod
39	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 united	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 tomb	case
41	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 tomb	det
42	underground	underground	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 tomb	amod
43	tomb	tomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 united	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 united	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	I						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	uncle's thoughts					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thought=Theme
3	present	participle	I not said here	the beautiful princesses	uncle				vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Theme to he=Recipient
4	care	past	uncle					for none	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for none=Theme
5	see	present	you						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	unite	present · perfect · passive	a horrible death	princesses = princess		a underground tomb	now		vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
7	think		uncle						nom thought «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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