The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 61
"I am lost," he answered, "and I am looking for the road."
Who acts: prince · What happens: lose, answer, look · To what, where: prince · 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 (prince), 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 | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | aux:pass |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lost | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looking | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 looking | aux |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 road | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 road | det |
| 17 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | present · passive | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look in a quote | present · progressive | prince | for the road | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for road=Theme |
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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