The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 64
"You are right, mother," replied the girl, and rising she dipped her hand into a vessel of water.
Who acts: You, girl · What happens: be, reply, rise, dip · To what, where: hand, vessel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, girl), 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 right | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mother | punct |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dipped | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dipped | cc |
| 14 | rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 dipped | nsubj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dipped | nsubj |
| 16 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dipped | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 vessel | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 vessel | det |
| 21 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dipped | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 water | case |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vessel | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the girl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | dip | past | girl's hand | a vessel of water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme into vessel=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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