The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 120
There can be no doubt that the prince has completely lost his senses.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: be, lose · To what, where: prince
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doubt), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 doubt | det |
| 5 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 be | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux |
| 10 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 11 lost | advmod |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 doubt | acl:relcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 senses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lost | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | no doubt | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect · passive | no doubt not said here | the prince | completely property | tree rules |
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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