The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 57

Dinarzade had no particular gifts to distinguish her from other girls, but her sister was clever and courageous in the highest degree.

Who acts: Dinarzade, sister · What happens: have, distinguish, be · To what, where: particular gifts, Dinarzade, highest degree

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 (Dinarzade, sister), 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	Dinarzade	Dinarzade	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 gifts	det
4	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gifts	amod
5	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 distinguish	mark
7	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	advcl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 distinguish	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 girls	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 girls	amod
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 distinguish	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 clever	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 clever	cc
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sister	nmod:poss
15	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clever	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 clever	cop
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 had	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 courageous	cc
19	courageous	courageous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 clever	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 degree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 degree	det
22	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 degree	amod
23	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 clever	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Dinarzade	no particular gifts			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Patient
2	distinguish	to-infinitive	Dinarzade not said here	Dinarzade		from other girls	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme from girl=Co-Theme
3	is	past	Dinarzade's sister		the highest degree	clever property	tree rules
4	be		Dinarzade's sister not said here				tree rules

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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