The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 123
This frightened the fisherman, but the genius laughed and said, "Do not be afraid; I only did it to frighten you, and to show you that I intend to keep my word; take your nets and follow me."
Who acts: This, genius, my · What happens: frighten, laugh, say, not be, do, show · To what, where: fisherman, form, you, word, nets, genius · 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 (This, genius, my), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 frightened | nsubj |
| 2 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fisherman | det |
| 4 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 frightened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laughed | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 laughed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 genius | det |
| 8 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 laughed | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 afraid | punct |
| 14 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 afraid | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 afraid | cop |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 did | advmod |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 frighten | mark |
| 24 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 did | advcl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 frighten | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 take | cc |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 show | mark |
| 29 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 take | advcl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 show | iobj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 intend | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 intend | nsubj |
| 33 | intend | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 show | ccomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 keep | mark |
| 35 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 intend | xcomp |
| 36 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 word | nmod:poss |
| 37 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keep | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 39 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 frightened | parataxis |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 nets | nmod:poss |
| 41 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 take | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 follow | cc |
| 43 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 39 take | conj |
| 44 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 follow | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 39 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past | This | the fisherman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the genius | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the genius not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | the genius = genius | form | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | frighten in a quote | to-infinitive | the genius = genius not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | intend in a quote | present | the genius = genius | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | keep not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the genius = genius not said here | my word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 10 | take in a quote | infinitive | your nets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | |||||
| 11 | follow in a quote | infinitive | the genius = genius | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 12 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: 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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