The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 118
"Father," she answered, "this calf is the son of our master.
Who acts: Father, calf · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, calf), 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 | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 calf | det |
| 10 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 son | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 master | case |
| 15 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Father | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this calf | the son | of our master | 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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