The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 38
I was much astonished, but the fairy who reappeared said to me,
Who acts: I, fairy · What happens: be, reappear, say · To what, where: me · 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 (I, fairy), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 astonished | advmod |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fairy | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 reappeared | nsubj |
| 10 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 astonished | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 me | case |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | I | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reappear | past | the fairy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | participle | the fairy | me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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