The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 4, sentence 96
Then open the book, and my head will answer your questions.
Who acts: you, head, your · What happens: open, answer, question · To what, where: book, questions
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, head, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 open | advmod |
| 2 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 book | det |
| 4 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 open | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answer | cc |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answer | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | aux |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 open | conj |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 questions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 answer | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the book | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | future | my head | your questions | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | question | your | nom question «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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