The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 2, sentence 99
To please her, I tried again, but again the animal's lows and tears disarmed me.
Who acts: I, animal lows · What happens: please, try, disarm · To what, where: cow, me
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 (I, animal lows), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 please | mark |
| 2 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 tried | advcl |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 please | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 please | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tried | nsubj |
| 6 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 tried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 disarmed | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 disarmed | cc |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 animal | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 animal | det |
| 12 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lows | compound |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 animal | case |
| 14 | lows | low | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 disarmed | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tears | cc |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lows | conj |
| 17 | disarmed | disarm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tried | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 disarmed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | I not said here | cow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | try | past | I | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | disarm | past | animal lows and tears | me | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer |
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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