The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 27
"My daughter," answered the vizir's wife, "they do not flatter you.
Who acts: daughter, women · What happens: answer, not flatter · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, women), 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 daughter | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vizir | det |
| 8 | vizir | vizir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 vizir | case |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flatter | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 flatter | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flatter | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 flatter | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 flatter | advmod |
| 16 | flatter | flatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 flatter | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My daughter | the vizir's wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not flatter in a quote | present · do-support | women = woman | the vizir's wife = wife | 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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