The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 66
"Prince," replied the Princess of Bengal, "I have no idea what a Persian palace is like, so I am unable to make comparisons.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: reply, have, be, make · To what, where: Princess, idea, comparisons · 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 (Prince), 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 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Prince | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Princess | det |
| 7 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Bengal | case |
| 9 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Princess | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 idea | appos |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 18 | Persian | persian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 palace | amod |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | cop |
| 21 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 19 palace | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 unable | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 unable | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 unable | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 unable | cop |
| 26 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 have | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 unable | xcomp |
| 29 | comparisons | comparison | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Prince | the Princess of Bengal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Prince | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Prince | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | comparisons | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comparison=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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