The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 75
"I really think," replied the king, "that will be the best way."
Who acts: king, that · What happens: think, reply, be · To what, where: best way · 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 (king, that), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 way | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 way | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 way | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 16 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 way | amod |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the king = king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the king | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | future | that | the best way | 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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