The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 104
"Turn over a few more pages," answered the head.
Who acts: head · What happens: turn over, answer · To what, where: few more pages · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | ccomp |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 2 Turn | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pages | det |
| 5 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pages | amod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 pages | amod |
| 7 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Turn | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn over in a quote | infinitive | a few more pages | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent page=Theme | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the head | 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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