The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 21, sentence 71
The lady had been cleverer than himself, and had made the best use of her time.
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, make, use · To what, where: best use, time
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 (lady), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lady | det |
| 2 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cleverer | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cleverer | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cleverer | cop |
| 5 | cleverer | clever | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 cleverer | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 cleverer | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 use | det |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 use | amod |
| 14 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 time | nmod:poss |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 use | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cleverer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the lady | than Alnaschar; clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | the lady not said here | the best use of lady's time | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product | ||||
| 3 | use | lady's time | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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