The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 26, sentence 25
All things considered, she decided to accept, and after a few moments silence said with a blush, which the king attributed to modesty:
Who acts: things, blush · What happens: consider, decide, accept, say, king, attribute · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, blush), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 things | det |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 3 | considered | consider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 decided | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 considered | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 accept | mark |
| 8 | accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decided | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 silence | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 silence | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 moments | amod |
| 14 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 silence | compound |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 blush | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 blush | det |
| 19 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 king | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 king | nsubj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blush | appos |
| 24 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 king | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 modesty | case |
| 26 | modesty | modesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attributed | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consider | participle | all things not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | decide | past | all things | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | accept not said to happen | to-infinitive | all things not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | all things not said here | after a moments silence | with a blush | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with blush=Manner | |||
| 5 | king | a blush | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | attribute | participle | the king not said here | to modesty | 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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