The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 48
What would you say if you could see the prince I have just been looking at and whose beauty is really transcendent?
Who acts: you, I, beauty · What happens: say, see, look, be · To what, where: prince · 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 (you, I, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | aux |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 say | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 see | obj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 looking | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | aux |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 looking | advmod |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 looking | aux |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 say | ccomp |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 looking | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 transcendent | cc |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 transcendent | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 transcendent | cop |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 transcendent | advmod |
| 22 | transcendent | transcendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looking | conj |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see a condition, not said to happen | could | you | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | present · perfect · progressive | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is | present | beauty | transcendent 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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