The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 29

"Cut her head off," then, "if she is a stranger to you, and I shall believe you are speaking the truth, and will set you at liberty."

Who acts: you, princess, man · What happens: cut off, be, believe, speak, set · To what, where: head, you, stranger, truth, liberty · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, man), 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 Cut	punct
2	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cut	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 Cut	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Cut	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 stranger	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stranger	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 stranger	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stranger	det
15	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cut	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Cut	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 believe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 believe	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 believe	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 believe	aux
22	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Cut	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 speaking	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 speaking	aux
25	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 believe	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 truth	det
27	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 speaking	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 set	aux
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Cut	conj
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 set	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 liberty	case
34	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	cut off in a quote	imperative	you not said here	princess's head	you		then	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
2	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	princess	a stranger				tree rules
3	believe in a quote	shall	man					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	speak speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	you	the truth				tree rules
5	set in a quote	future	you not said here	you		liberty		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme at liberty=Destination

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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