The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 44

Contrary to my hopes, the genius seemed interested in my words, and said he would like to hear the story of the two neighbours; and as I think, madam, it may please you, I will tell it to you also.

Who acts: Contrary hopes, hope, I, neighbour, my · What happens: seem, say, like, hear, think, please · To what, where: story, madam, you, neighbour · 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 (Contrary hopes, hope, I, neighbour), 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	Contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hopes	amod
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 hopes	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hopes	nmod:poss
4	hopes	hope	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seemed	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hopes	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 genius	det
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	interested	interested	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 words	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 words	nmod:poss
12	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 interested	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	conj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 like	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 like	aux
18	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hear	mark
20	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 like	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 story	det
22	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hear	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 neighbours	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 neighbours	det
25	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 neighbours	nummod
26	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 story	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 please	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 please	cc
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 think	mark
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 think	nsubj
31	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 please	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 madam	punct
33	madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 think	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 think	punct
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 please	nsubj
36	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 please	aux
37	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 seemed	parataxis
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 please	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 tell	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 tell	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 tell	aux
42	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 please	conj
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 tell	obj
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 you	case
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 tell	obl
46	also	also	ADV	_	42 tell	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	my Contrary hopes			interested property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	my Contrary hopes not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	like	would	hope				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	hear not said to happen	to-infinitive	hope not said here	the story of the two neighbours			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	think speech: other	present	I	madam			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	please	may	neighbour	you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
7	tell speech: assert	future	I	neighbour	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient
8	hope		my				nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent
9	word		my				nom word «communication 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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