The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 14, sentence 69
Moreover, as I was still in the prime of life, it pleased me better to be up and doing.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, do · To what, where: prime
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 prime | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 prime | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 prime | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 prime | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 prime | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prime | det |
| 9 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleased | advcl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prime | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prime | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 pleased | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 up | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 up | cop |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 better | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 doing | cc |
| 21 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 up | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | the prime | still | of life | tree rules | ||
| 2 | do | gerund | vn act-114-1 «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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