The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 19, sentence 48
"Never mind that," returned the doctor, "the thing is to find a way out of it."
Who acts: you, thing · What happens: not mind, return, be · To what, where: that, doctor, way
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thing), 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 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mind | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doctor | det |
| 9 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | cop |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 find | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | past | you not said here | the doctor | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the thing | way | find 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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