The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
You travelled," I said, "and what did you gain?"
Who acts: You, I · What happens: travel, say, gain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 travelled | nsubj |
| 2 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 travelled | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 travelled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gain | cc |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 gain | obj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gain | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 gain | nsubj |
| 13 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 travelled | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 gain | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | You | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gain | past · do-support | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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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