Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Story of Alnaschar., sentence 28
To this end I shall confine her to her own apartment, make her a short visit, and talk but little to her.
Who acts: I · What happens: confine, make, talk · To what, where: princess, end, short visit
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Story of Alnaschar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confine | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 confine | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 confine | aux |
| 6 | confine | confine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 confine | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 apartment | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 apartment | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 apartment | amod |
| 11 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confine | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 confine | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 visit | det |
| 16 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 visit | amod |
| 17 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 talk | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 talk | cc |
| 20 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 confine | conj |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 little | cc |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 talk | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 talk | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 confine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | shall | I | princess | to this end | to princess's own apartment | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to end=Destination | ||
| 2 | make | infinitive | I not said here | a short visit | princess | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary visit=Product | |||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | I not said here | princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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