The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 94
She gave Aladdin the message, adding: "He may wait long enough for your answer!"
Who acts: mother, Aladdin, your · What happens: give, add, wait, answer · To what, where: message, Aladdin · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Aladdin, your), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 message | det |
| 5 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 adding | punct |
| 7 | adding | add | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 gave | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wait | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | aux |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 gave | parataxis |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 wait | advmod |
| 14 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 13 long | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 answer | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 answer | nmod:poss |
| 17 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wait | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mother | the message | Aladdin | tree rules | |||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | mother not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | wait in a quote | may | Aladdin | for your answer; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | answer in a quote | your | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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