The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 14
What can he have done to deserve to be treated like this?"
Who acts: prince · What happens: do, deserve, treat
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 (prince), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 done | obj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 deserve | mark |
| 7 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 treated | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 treated | aux:pass |
| 10 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deserve | xcomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 this | case |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 treated | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can · perfect | prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | deserve | to-infinitive | prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | treat | to-infinitive · passive | prince not said here | like this | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.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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