The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 34, sentence 77

In reply to my affectionate words, I expected a cheerful answer; yet Amina said nothing at all, but continued to pick her rice as before, only at longer and longer intervals.

Who acts: I, Amina, my · What happens: expect, say, continue, pick, word · To what, where: cheerful answer, reply, nothing, all, rice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Amina, my), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 reply	case
2	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expected	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 words	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 words	nmod:poss
5	affectionate	affectionate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 words	amod
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reply	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 reply	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 expected	nsubj
9	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 answer	det
11	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answer	amod
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 expected	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	Amina	Amina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 expected	conj
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 said	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 nothing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 continued	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 continued	cc
22	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 expected	parataxis
23	to	to	PART	_	24 pick	mark
24	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 continued	xcomp
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 rice	nmod:poss
26	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pick	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 before	case
28	before	before	ADV	_	24 pick	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 longer	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 longer	case
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 pick	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 intervals	cc
34	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 intervals	amod
35	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 longer	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 expected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expect	past	I	a cheerful answer	reply to my affectionate words		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Amina	nothing	all		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	continue	past					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pick	to-infinitive		Amina's rice		long property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient
5	word		my				nom word «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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