The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 35, sentence 81
"My daughter," she answered, "is, as you see, as accomplished a magician as Amina herself, but you would be astonished at the amount of good she does by her knowledge.
Who acts: daughter, you · What happens: answer, be, see, accomplish, astonish, do · To what, where: daughter, magician, you, amount · 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 (daughter, you), 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 | _ | 3 daughter | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 is | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 accomplished | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 accomplished | mark |
| 17 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 see | ccomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 magician | det |
| 19 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accomplished | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Amina | case |
| 21 | Amina | Amina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 accomplished | obl |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 accomplished | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 astonished | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 astonished | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 astonished | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 astonished | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 astonished | aux:pass |
| 28 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 accomplished | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 amount | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 amount | det |
| 31 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 astonished | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 good | case |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 amount | nmod |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 does | nsubj |
| 35 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 amount | acl:relcl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 knowledge | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 38 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 does | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | daughter | My daughter not said here | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | My daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | accomplish in a quote | participle | a magician | as Amina; daughter obl | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | astonish in a quote | would · passive | you | the amount of good | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present | daughter | the amount of good not said here | by daughter's knowledge | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Eventuality |
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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