The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 20, sentence 60
She is mortified that you never deign to look her way; she is tired of standing so long.
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: mortify, not deign, look, be, stand · To what, where: wife, way
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mortified | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mortified | aux:pass |
| 3 | mortified | mortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 deign | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 deign | nsubj |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 deign | advmod |
| 7 | deign | deign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mortified | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deign | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 way | nmod:poss |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 tired | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tired | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tired | cop |
| 15 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 mortified | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 standing | mark |
| 17 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 tired | advcl |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 standing | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mortified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mortify | present · passive | wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not deign | infinitive | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | you not said here | wife's way | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is | present | wife | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | wife not said here | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «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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