The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 25, sentence 91
But," thought he, "how shall I find my way back?
Who acts: I · What happens: think, find back · To what, where: Prince, way
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 thought | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 find | advmod |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thought | conj |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 way | nmod:poss |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 find | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Prince | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find back | shall | I | my way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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