The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 18
Be quick and bring me back his answer."
Who acts: you, prince · What happens: be, bring back, answer · To what, where: answer, me
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 (you, prince), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | cop |
| 2 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 bring | cc |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 quick | conj |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | back | back | ADP | _ | 4 bring | compound:prt |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 answer | nmod:poss |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | quick property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | prince's answer | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination answer=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer | prince | nom answer «communication transitive»: poss=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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