The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 25

The present king has one only daughter, who is so perfectly lovely that neither you, nor I, nor any other creature could find adequate terms in which to describe her marvellous charms.

Who acts: present king, one daughter, other creature · What happens: have, be, find, describe · To what, where: one daughter, adequate terms, marvellous charms

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 (present king, one daughter, other creature), 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	3 king	det
2	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 king	amod
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 daughter	nummod
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 daughter	advmod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lovely	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lovely	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lovely	cop
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 lovely	advmod
12	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	13 lovely	advmod
13	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 you	mark
15	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	16 you	nsubj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 lovely	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 I	punct
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 I	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 has	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 find	cc
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 creature	det
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 creature	amod
24	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	conj
27	adequate	adequate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 terms	amod
28	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 find	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 describe	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 describe	mark
32	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 terms	acl:relcl
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 charms	nmod:poss
34	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 charms	amod
35	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 describe	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the present king	one daughter			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	is	present	one daughter			lovely, perfectly property	tree rules
3	find	could	any other creature	adequate terms			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Topic
4	describe	to-infinitive	any other creature not said here	creature's marvellous charms	adequate terms		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent charm=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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