The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 51
"Who are you, my lord?" she replied trembling all over. "
Who acts: woman · What happens: be, reply, tremble · To what, where: lord · 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 (woman), 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 | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 lord | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lord | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 replied | xcomp |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 over | advmod |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 12 trembling | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my lord | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | woman not said here | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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