The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 44
"Your Royal Highness wishes to make game of us," said the nurse. "
Who acts: Royal Highness, nurse · What happens: wish, make, say · To what, where: game · 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 (Royal Highness, nurse), 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 | _ | 5 wishes | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 Highness | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Royal | Royal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Highness | compound |
| 4 | Highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wishes | nsubj |
| 5 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wishes | ccomp |
| 8 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 game | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wishes | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wishes | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nurse | det |
| 15 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present | Your Royal Highness | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | game of us | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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