The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 63
"Sire," replied the princess, "this is not the one you gave me before and whose ring I wear.
Who acts: Sire, this, you · What happens: reply, not be, give, wear · To what, where: princess, one, Sire, ring · 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 (Sire, this, you), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 one | punct |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 one | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 one | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 princess | appos |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 one | acl:relcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | before | before | ADV | _ | 16 gave | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ring | cc |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 21 ring | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 before | conj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wear | nsubj |
| 23 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ring | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | the princess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | this | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | past | you | the one not said here | Sire | before property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||
| 4 | wear in a quote | present | Sire | ring not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=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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