The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 34
"Very well," replied the prince: "then, impatient though I am to see the princess, I will effect the cure where I stand, the better to convince you of my power."
Who acts: prince · What happens: reply, see, effect, stand, convince · To what, where: princess, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 impatient | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 impatient | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 impatient | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 impatient | punct |
| 13 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 effect | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 princess | det |
| 20 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 effect | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 effect | aux |
| 24 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 impatient | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cure | det |
| 26 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 effect | appos |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 stand | advmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 stand | nsubj |
| 29 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cure | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 better | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 better | det |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 effect | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 convince | mark |
| 34 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 better | csubj |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 convince | iobj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 power | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 power | nmod:poss |
| 38 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 convince | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 impatient | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the prince | well property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | the prince = prince | the princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | effect in a quote | future | the prince = prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | present | the prince = prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | convince in a quote | to-infinitive | you | of my power | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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