The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 3

She is in every way fit to be the slave of a king; she plays every musical instrument, she sings, she dances, she makes verses, in fact there is no accomplishment in which she does not excel."

Who acts: price, accomplishment · What happens: be, play, sing, dance, make, not excel · To what, where: way, slave, musical instrument, verses, fact, accomplishment

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 (price, accomplishment), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fit	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	obl
6	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	10 slave	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 slave	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 slave	det
10	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fit	xcomp
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 king	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slave	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 plays	punct
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 plays	nsubj
16	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fit	parataxis
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 instrument	det
18	musical	musical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 instrument	amod
19	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 plays	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sings	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sings	nsubj
22	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 plays	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dances	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dances	nsubj
25	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 plays	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 makes	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 makes	nsubj
28	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dances	conj
29	verses	verse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 makes	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fact	punct
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 fact	case
32	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 makes	xcomp
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 is	expl
34	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 fact	acl
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 accomplishment	det
36	accomplishment	accomplishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 is	nsubj
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 which	case
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 excel	obl
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 excel	nsubj
40	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 excel	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 excel	advmod
42	excel	excel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 accomplishment	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fit	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 fit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	price		every way	fit property	tree rules
2	is a	to-infinitive	price not said here	the slave		of a king	tree rules
3	play	present	price	every musical instrument			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
4	sing speech: express	present	price				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
5	dance	present	price				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	make	present	price	verses			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Product
7	be	present	no accomplishment	fact not said here	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fact=Theme
8	not excel	present · do-support	price		no accomplishment		vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in which=Eventuality

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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