The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 108
Will your highness permit me to do as my sister asks?" said she.
Who acts: highness, sister, Dinarzade · What happens: permit, do, ask, say · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (highness, sister, Dinarzade), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 permit | aux |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 permit | nsubj |
| 4 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 permit | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 permit | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 asks | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asks | nsubj |
| 11 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 permit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 permit | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | future | your highness | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | your highness not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | my sister | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Dinarzade | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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