The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 27, sentence 6
"Never mind," said the princess, "unload them all the same, and we will arrange the price."
Who acts: you, princess, we · What happens: not mind, say, unload, arrange · To what, where: olives, price · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, princess, we), 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 | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 mind | advmod |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unload | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 unload | punct |
| 11 | unload | unload | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | parataxis |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 unload | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 same | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 same | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 unload | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 arrange | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 arrange | cc |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 arrange | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 arrange | aux |
| 20 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mind | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 price | det |
| 22 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arrange | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | unload in a quote | infinitive | olives = olive | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | |||||
| 4 | arrange in a quote | future | we | the price | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Product |
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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