The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 70
I do not deny that your princess is very handsome, but only look and you must own that I am in the right."
Who acts: I, princess, you · What happens: not deny, be, look, own · To what, where: right
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 (I, princess, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 deny | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 deny | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 deny | advmod |
| 4 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 handsome | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 princess | nmod:poss |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handsome | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 handsome | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 handsome | advmod |
| 10 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 deny | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 look | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 look | cc |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 deny | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 own | cc |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 own | nsubj |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 own | aux |
| 18 | own | own | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 look | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 right | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 right | nsubj |
| 21 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 right | cop |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 right | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 right | det |
| 24 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 own | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 deny | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deny | present · do-support | I | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | your princess | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | own | must | you | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is | present | I | the right | 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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