The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 1
As soon as he mentioned olives, the princess, who was very partial to them, exclaimed:
Who acts: he, princess · What happens: mention, be, exclaim · To what, where: olives
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 exclaimed | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 mentioned | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mentioned | nsubj |
| 5 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 exclaimed | advcl |
| 6 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mentioned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princess | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 olives | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 partial | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 partial | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 partial | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 partial | advmod |
| 14 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 partial | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
| 18 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | past | he | olives | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent olive=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the princess | olives = olive | partial property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | soon property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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