The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 32, sentence 54
"Now I know," cried Aladdin, "that we have to thank the African magician for this!
Who acts: Aladdin, we, that · What happens: know, cry, have, thank · To what, where: that, African magician · 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 (Aladdin, we, that), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 8 | Aladdin | Aladdin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | obj |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 thank | mark |
| 15 | thank | thank | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magician | det |
| 17 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 magician | amod |
| 18 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thank | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 thank | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | Aladdin | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Aladdin | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | that | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | thank speech: thank in a quote | to-infinitive | that not said here | the African magician | for this | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent magician=Theme for this=Attribute |
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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