The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 69
"Yes, my father, I know it well," replied she, "and I am not afraid to think of it.
Who acts: father, beauty · What happens: know, reply, not be, think · To what, where: Sultan · 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 (father, beauty), 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 | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 father | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | obj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | parataxis |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 she | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 she | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 afraid | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 afraid | advmod |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 think | mark |
| 23 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 afraid | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 think | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | my father | Sultan | well property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | beauty | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | beauty | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | beauty not said here | of Sultan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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