The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 125
"Yes, I can," she replied, "on two conditions.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: reply · To what, where: two conditions
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 (daughter), 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 can | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 conditions | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 conditions | punct |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 conditions | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 conditions | nummod |
| 14 | conditions | condition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 replied | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | can | daughter | two conditions | vn respond-113 «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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