The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 50
"I see nothing in it," replied the king, "except a clever imitation of a real one; and any skilled workman might do as much."
Who acts: king, skilled workman · What happens: see, reply, do, imitate · To what, where: nothing, real one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, skilled workman), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | 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 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 imitation | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 imitation | punct |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 imitation | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 imitation | det |
| 16 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 imitation | amod |
| 17 | imitation | imitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 king | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imitation | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 do | cc |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 workman | det |
| 25 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 workman | amod |
| 26 | workman | workman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 do | nsubj |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 do | aux |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 much | advmod |
| 30 | much | much | ADV | _ | 28 do | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | the king and a clever imitation of a real one = king | nothing | in Horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king and a clever imitation of a real one | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | might | any skilled workman | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | imitate in a quote | a real one | nom imitation «cognition transitive»: of=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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