The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
"Then bring me the monkey," he replied, "as fast as you can."
Who acts: you, monkey · What happens: bring, reply · To what, where: monkey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, monkey), 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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bring | advmod |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fast | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 fast | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 can | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fast | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | monkey | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | monkey | fast property | vn respond-113 «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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