The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 12, sentence 4
My heart beat at this thought, which was almost too good to be true.
Who acts: thought · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thought), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | compound |
| 3 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 thought | det |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beat | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 good | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 good | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 good | cop |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 good | advmod |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thought | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 true | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 true | cop |
| 15 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 good | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this thought | almost, good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | this thought not said here | true 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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