The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 87
However, he said nothing, but begged to be allowed to see the prince.
Who acts: vizir · What happens: say, beg, allow, see · To what, where: nothing, prince · 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 (vizir), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 begged | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 begged | cc |
| 8 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 allowed | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | aux:pass |
| 11 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 begged | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 allowed | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | vizir | nothing | however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | vizir not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | allow not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=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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