The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 52
It was now the turn of the youngest sister, who was by far the most beautiful of the three, and had, besides, more sense than the other two. "
Who acts: taste, youngest sister · What happens: be, have · To what, where: turn
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 (taste, youngest sister), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turn | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 turn | det |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sister | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sister | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 sister | amod |
| 9 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 beautiful | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 beautiful | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beautiful | cop |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 far | case |
| 14 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beautiful | det |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sister | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 three | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 three | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 had | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 had | cc |
| 23 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 besides | punct |
| 25 | besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 23 had | discourse |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sense | punct |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 sense | amod |
| 28 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 two | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 two | det |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 two | amod |
| 32 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 sense | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | taste | the turn and more sense than the other two | now | of the youngest sister | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is | past | the youngest sister | of the three; beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | taste not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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