The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 79
Glance at that couch, and say without any partiality whether you think the youth or the maiden lying there the more beautiful."
Who acts: Glance, you, maiden · What happens: say, think, lie · To what, where: youth, beautiful · 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 (Glance, you, maiden), 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 | Glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 couch | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 couch | det |
| 4 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Glance | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 say | cc |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 partiality | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 partiality | det |
| 10 | partiality | partiality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 say | obl |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 think | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 think | nsubj |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 think | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 maiden | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 maiden | det |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 youth | conj |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 maiden | acl |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 lying | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 beautiful | det |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 beautiful | advmod |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | infinitive | Glance at that couch | without any partiality | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | the youth or the maiden | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot youth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the maiden not said here | the beautiful | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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