The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 64
"Princess," observed the young man, "till now I had always believed that Persia could boast finer palaces and more lovely gardens than any kingdom upon earth.
Who acts: Princess, attendants, Persia · What happens: observe, believe, boast · To what, where: young man, finer palaces
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 (Princess, attendants, Persia), 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 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
| 11 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 believed | mark |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 believed | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 believed | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 believed | aux |
| 15 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 16 believed | advmod |
| 16 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 observed | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 boast | mark |
| 18 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 boast | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 boast | aux |
| 20 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 believed | advcl |
| 21 | finer | fine | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 palaces | amod |
| 22 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 boast | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 gardens | cc |
| 24 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 lovely | advmod |
| 25 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 gardens | amod |
| 26 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 palaces | conj |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 kingdom | case |
| 28 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 kingdom | det |
| 29 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boast | obl |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 earth | case |
| 31 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 kingdom | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | Princess | the young man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | believe in a quote | past · perfect | the princess's attendants = attendant | now | always property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | boast speech: other in a quote | could | Persia | finer palaces and lovely gardens | than any kingdom upon earth | 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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