The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 66
"Have you lost your senses?" cried the grand-vizir, starting back in horror. "
Who acts: you, grand vizir · What happens: lose, cry, start back · To what, where: senses, horror · 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 (you, grand vizir), 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 senses | nmod:poss |
| 6 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lost | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizir | det |
| 11 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 vizir | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 grand | punct |
| 13 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 starting | punct |
| 15 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 starting | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 horror | case |
| 18 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 starting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present · perfect | you | your senses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the grand vizir | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | start back | gerund | the grand vizir not said here | horror | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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