The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 41
"You would have done better to believe me," replied the wife. "
Who acts: You, wife · What happens: do, believe, reply · To what, where: wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, wife), 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 | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 done | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | aux |
| 5 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 done | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 believe | mark |
| 8 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 done | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 believe | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 done | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wife | det |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would · perfect | You | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | the wife = wife | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the wife | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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