The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 31, sentence 95
"Not so long, mother, as you think," her son replied "I would do a great deal more than that for the princess."
Who acts: you, son · What happens: think, reply, do · To what, where: great deal · 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 (you, son), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 long | advmod |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 long | advmod |
| 4 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 long | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 think | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 think | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | nsubj |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 think | advcl |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 deal | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deal | amod |
| 22 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 deal | amod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 more | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 princess | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | mother's son | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | would | mother's son = son | a great deal | for the princess | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Eventuality |
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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