The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 3, sentence 45
Do you not think it is a most marvellous one?
Who acts: you, history · What happens: not think, be · To what, where: marvellous one · 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, history), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 one | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 one | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 8 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 marvellous | advmod |
| 9 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | history | a marvellous one | 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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