The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 111
Perhaps, indeed, she may be no longer alive!"
Who acts: princess · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 10 alive | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perhaps | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 10 alive | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 indeed | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 alive | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 alive | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 alive | cop |
| 8 | no | no | ADV | _ | 9 longer | advmod |
| 9 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 alive | advmod |
| 10 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 alive | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 alive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | princess | alive, indeed, long, perhaps property | tree rules |
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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