The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 39
"Good woman," replied the old hag, "you could not have asked anyone better.
Who acts: Good woman, you · What happens: reply, not ask · To what, where: old hag, anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good woman, you), 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 | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hag | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hag | amod |
| 9 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 asked | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | aux |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 16 asked | obj |
| 18 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 asked | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Good woman | the old hag | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | could · perfect | you | anyone | good property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
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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