The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 48
"I," replied the second sister, "should be quite content with the Sultan's head cook.
Who acts: I · What happens: reply, be · To what, where: second sister, quite content · 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 I | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sister | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 sister | amod |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 content | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 content | punct |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 content | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 content | cop |
| 13 | quite | quite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 content | amod |
| 14 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 cook | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 Sultan | case |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | compound |
| 20 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 content | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | the second sister | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | should | quite content | with the Sultan's head cook | 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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