The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 37
It is really such a bad imitation," he exclaimed at last, "that even my dog would not be taken in.
Who acts: baker, smell · What happens: be, exclaim, not take in · To what, where: bad imitation, last, dog
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baker, smell), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 imitation | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 imitation | cop |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 imitation | advmod |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 imitation | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 imitation | det |
| 6 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 imitation | amod |
| 7 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 imitation | acl:relcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 exclaimed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 taken | obj |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 19 dog | advmod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dog | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 taken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 taken | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 taken | aux:pass |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 imitation | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 taken | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 imitation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | baker | such bad imitation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | smell | such bad imitation not said here | last | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent imitation=Topic | |||
| 3 | not take in | would · passive | my dog | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination |
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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