The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 16
She went and said to the magician: "Give me a new lamp for this."
Who acts: princess · What happens: go, say, give · To what, where: magician, new lamp, princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 magician | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 10 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 Give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lamp | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lamp | amod |
| 14 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Give | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 lamp | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | princess | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess not said here | the magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to magician=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | a new lamp | princess | for this | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lamp=Theme for this=Asset |
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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