The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 46
The fairy only answered with a peal of laughter, and when at length she had control of her voice she cried, "Oh, come, you are making game of me!
Who acts: fairy, Maimoune, you, laughter · What happens: answer, have, cry, come, make, peal · To what, where: control, voice, length, game · 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 (fairy, Maimoune, you, laughter), 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 fairy | det |
| 2 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 answered | advmod |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 peal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peal | det |
| 7 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 laughter | case |
| 9 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peal | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 come | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 come | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 length | case |
| 14 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 come | obl |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 length | acl:relcl |
| 17 | control | control | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 control | nmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cried | nsubj |
| 22 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 voice | acl:relcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 length | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 25 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 27 come | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Oh | punct |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 answered | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 making | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 making | nsubj |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 making | aux |
| 31 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 come | advcl |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 making | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 game | nmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the fairy | with a peal of laughter | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | Maimoune | control of Maimoune's voice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent control=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Maimoune | Maimoune's voice not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | infinitive | the fairy not said here | length | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | present · progressive | you | game of me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Product | ||||
| 6 | peal | laughter | nom peal «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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