The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 16
Still she did not suppose that the horse could have been forgotten by the Sultan, after all she had told him of its value.
Who acts: princess, Sultan, death · What happens: not suppose, forget, tell, value · To what, where: horse, all · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, Sultan, death), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 suppose | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suppose | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 suppose | advmod |
| 5 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 forgotten | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 forgotten | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 forgotten | aux:pass |
| 12 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 suppose | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Sultan | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sultan | det |
| 15 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 forgotten | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 all | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 told | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | aux |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 forgotten | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | iobj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 value | case |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 value | nmod:poss |
| 25 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 told | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suppose | past · do-support | princess | still | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | forget | could · perfect · passive | the Sultan | the horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | all | horse | of death's value | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic | |||
| 4 | value | death | nom value «cognition 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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