The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 100
"Prince," replied Marzavan, "I have already thought over the matter, and this is what seems to me the best plan.
Who acts: Prince, this · What happens: reply, think, be, seem · To what, where: matter, best plan, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, this), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | aux |
| 11 | already | already | ADV | _ | 12 thought | advmod |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | conj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 matter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 what | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 what | cc |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 what | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 21 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 seems | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 plan | det |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 plan | amod |
| 26 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seems | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | Prince | the matter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem in a quote | present | the best plan | Prince | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plan=Attribute |
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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