The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 36, sentence 73
Why, I did not even know that the vase had olives in it!
Who acts: I, vase · What happens: not know, have · To what, where: olives, despair · 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 (I, vase), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 know | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 had | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vase | det |
| 10 | vase | vase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | ccomp |
| 12 | olives | olive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 had | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | obl |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | past | the vase | olives | despair | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Patient |
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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