The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 46

"I am quite in earnest," persisted the princess, "and I want to know where he is."

Who acts: nurse, earnest · What happens: be, persist, want, know · To what, where: princess · 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 (nurse, earnest), 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	_	6 earnest	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 earnest	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 earnest	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 earnest	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 earnest	case
6	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 persisted	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 earnest	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 earnest	punct
9	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 princess	det
11	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 persisted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 persisted	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 persisted	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 want	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 want	nsubj
16	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 persisted	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 know	mark
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 want	xcomp
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 is	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 is	nsubj
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 know	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the nurse = nurse		earn property	tree rules
2	persist	past	earnest	the princess		tree rules
3	want in a quote	present	the nurse = nurse			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	know not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the nurse = nurse not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	be in a quote	present	nurse			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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