The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 84
"What you ask is impossible," she answered; "but stay here with me instead, and we can be happy, and all you will have to do is to betake yourself to the forest every tenth day, when I am expecting my master the genius.
Who acts: you, feast, we, all, I · What happens: ask, be, answer, stay, have, expect · To what, where: master · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, feast, we, all), 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 ask | obj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 impossible | cop |
| 6 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 stay | cc |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | conj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stay | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 stay | obl |
| 18 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 happy | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happy | cc |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 happy | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 happy | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 happy | cop |
| 24 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 have | cc |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 have | nsubj |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 have | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 have | aux |
| 30 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 betake | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 32 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 35 betake | aux |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 betake | cop |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 betake | mark |
| 35 | betake | betake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 36 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 betake | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 forest | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 forest | det |
| 39 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betake | obl |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 day | det |
| 41 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 day | amod |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 betake | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 expecting | punct |
| 44 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 47 expecting | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 expecting | nsubj |
| 46 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 expecting | aux |
| 47 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | advcl |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 master | nmod:poss |
| 49 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 expecting | obj |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 genius | det |
| 51 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 expecting | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | feast | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | here | with me; instead property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | |||
| 5 | is in a quote | can | we | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | future | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive · do-support | day | to the forest; betake property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | expect in a quote | present · progressive | I | my master | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent master=Theme genius=Eventuality |
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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