The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 23
"Madame," they replied, "it is of course impossible for us to tell what impression this young man has made on you.
Who acts: madame, it, us, impression · What happens: reply, be, tell, make · To what, where: impression, young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madame, it, us, impression), 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 Madame | punct |
| 2 | Madame | madame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madame | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 impossible | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 impossible | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 impossible | case |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 of | fixed |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 replied | conj |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 tell | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 tell | mark |
| 17 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 impossible | csubj |
| 18 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 19 impression | det |
| 19 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tell | obj |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 man | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 made | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | aux |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 impression | acl:relcl |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 you | case |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 made | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | madame | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | us | what impression | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent impression=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | what impression not said here | this young man | on you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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