The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 70
Marzavan asked if she could not manage to let him see the princess without the king's knowledge.
Who acts: Marzavan, son · What happens: ask, not manage, not let, see · To what, where: son, princess
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 (Marzavan, son), 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 | Marzavan | Marzavan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 manage | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 manage | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 manage | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 manage | advmod |
| 7 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 manage | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 knowledge | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Marzavan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not manage a condition, not said to happen | could | Marzavan | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not let | to-infinitive | Marzavan not said here | son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | son not said here | the princess | without the king's knowledge | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
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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