The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 13
"What a marvel of beauty he must be when his eyes are open!" she thought. "
Who acts: marvel, Maimoune, beauty · What happens: be, think, marvel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (marvel, Maimoune, beauty), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 thought | obj |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 marvel | det |
| 4 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 open | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 beauty | case |
| 6 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 marvel | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 open | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 open | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 open | cop |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 open | advmod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 open | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 open | cop |
| 14 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 What | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 open | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | must | a marvel of beauty | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Maimoune | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marvel in a quote | beauty | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=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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