The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 39, sentence 53
The princess, who, of course, was ignorant of the rank of her deliverer, denied altogether the Indian's story. "
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, deny · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 denied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ignorant | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ignorant | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 course | punct |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 who | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 who | punct |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ignorant | cop |
| 10 | ignorant | ignorant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 princess | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rank | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rank | det |
| 13 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ignorant | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 deliverer | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 deliverer | nmod:poss |
| 16 | deliverer | deliverer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rank | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 denied | punct |
| 18 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | altogether | altogether | ADP | _ | 23 story | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Indian | det |
| 21 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 story | amod |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Indian | case |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 denied | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 denied | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 denied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | of the rank of Princess's deliverer; ignorant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deny | participle · passive | the princess | altogether Indian story | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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