The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 37, sentence 65
"Name anything you like," cried the monarch, interrupting him. "
Who acts: you, monarch · What happens: name, like, cry, interrupt · To what, where: anything, monarch · 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 (you, monarch), 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 | _ | 2 Name | punct |
| 2 | Name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Name | obj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 like | nsubj |
| 5 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 anything | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Name | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 monarch | det |
| 10 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 interrupting | punct |
| 12 | interrupting | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 interrupting | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Name | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name in a quote | imperative | you not said here | anything | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the monarch | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | interrupt | gerund | the monarch not said here | monarch | tree rules |
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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