The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 45
"I ask nothing better," cried the eldest, "than to have the Sultan's baker for a husband.
Who acts: I · What happens: ask, cry, have · To what, where: nothing, eldest, baker · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 nothing | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eldest | det |
| 10 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 cried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 have | mark |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 baker | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 19 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 husband | det |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 baker | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | I | nothing | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the eldest | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | the Sultan's baker | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baker=Patient |
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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