The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 62
"Keep straight on," said the ogress, "and you will find it."
Who acts: you, ogress · What happens: keep, say, find · To what, where: ogress · 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 (you, ogress), 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 Keep | punct |
| 2 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 on | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Keep | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Keep | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ogress | det |
| 9 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 find | cc |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 find | aux |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Keep | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 find | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the ogress | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | future | you | ogress | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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