The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 83
Her mother did not believe her in the least, but bade her rise and consider it an idle dream.
Who acts: mother · What happens: not believe, consider, rise · To what, where: child, least, rise
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 mother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 believe | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 least | det |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 believe | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rise | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 rise | cc |
| 12 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rise | compound |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 rise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | rise | rise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 consider | cc |
| 16 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rise | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 consider | obj |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 dream | det |
| 19 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dream | amod |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 consider | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | mother's mother | child | the least | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | consider | infinitive | mother's mother not said here | rise | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme dream=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | rise | mother | nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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