The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
I am the daughter of an Indian king," she answered, "and whilst riding in the country I fell asleep and tumbled off.
Who acts: I, horse · What happens: be, answer, fall, tumble off · To what, where: daughter · 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 (I, horse), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 daughter | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 daughter | det |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 7 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 king | amod |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 daughter | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 16 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 17 riding | case |
| 17 | riding | riding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 country | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 riding | nmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fell | nsubj |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 answered | conj |
| 23 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fell | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tumbled | cc |
| 25 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 fell | conj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 25 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the daughter | of a Indian king | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | horse | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | I | whilst riding in the country; asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tumble off | participle | I not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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