The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 69
Why, you must be blind not to see how much my prince excels your princess.
Who acts: you, much · What happens: be, not see, excel · To what, where: princess · 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, much), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 blind | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blind | cop |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | obj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 see | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 see | mark |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 much | advmod |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 excels | nsubj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 prince | nmod:poss |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 much | nsubj |
| 14 | excels | excel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 see | ccomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 princess | nmod:poss |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 excels | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | you | blind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | excel | present | much | your princess | 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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