The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 54

This monkey is really no monkey at all, but a young prince who has been turned into a monkey by the wicked spells of a genius, son of the daughter of Eblis."

Who acts: monkey, wicked spells · What happens: be, turn, spell · To what, where: monkey, all, young prince, genius

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 (monkey, wicked spells), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 monkey	det
2	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 monkey	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 monkey	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 monkey	det
6	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 monkey	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prince	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 prince	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 prince	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 prince	amod
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 monkey	appos
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 turned	nsubj
15	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 turned	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 turned	aux:pass
17	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 prince	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 monkey	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 monkey	det
20	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turned	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 spells	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spells	det
23	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spells	amod
24	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 turned	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 genius	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 genius	det
27	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spells	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 son	punct
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spells	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 daughter	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 daughter	det
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 son	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Eblis	case
34	Eblis	Eblis	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 daughter	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 prince	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 monkey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	this monkey	no monkey	all		tree rules
2	turn	present · perfect · passive	the wicked spells of a genius and son of the daughter of Eblis	a young prince		into a monkey result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme into monkey=Result
3	spell			a genius			nom spell «state transitive»: of=patient

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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