The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 137
Is this not a most marvellous tale?
Who acts: this · What happens: not be · To what, where: marvellous tale
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 (this), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 tale | cop |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tale | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tale | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 marvellous | advmod |
| 6 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tale | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 tale | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | this | a marvellous tale | 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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