The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 38, sentence 69
But the reply of the Prince of Persia to her suggestion was not quite what she wished.
Who acts: reply, princess · What happens: not be, wish, reply, suggest · To what, where: Prince
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 (reply, princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 what | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reply | det |
| 3 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 what | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reply | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Persia | case |
| 8 | Persia | Persia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | nmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 suggestion | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 suggestion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reply | nmod |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 what | advmod |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 15 what | advmod |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wished | nsubj |
| 17 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | the reply of the Prince of Persia to princess's suggestion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wish | past | princess | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | reply | the Prince of Persia | to princess's suggestion | nom reply «communication transitive»: of=patient to=obl | |||||
| 4 | suggest | princess | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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