The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 28, sentence 5
Her price, however, is too high."
Who acts: price · What happens: be
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), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 price | nmod:poss |
| 2 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 price | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 high | cop |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 high | advmod |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Khacan's price | high, however property | 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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