The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 60
"My daughter," said the Sultan, "I really had no idea you were so clever."
Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: say, have, be · To what, where: idea · 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 (daughter, you), 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 daughter | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 had | nsubj |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 had | advmod |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 clever | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 clever | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 clever | advmod |
| 19 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 idea | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | past | My daughter = daughter | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | no idea not said here | clever property | 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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