The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 40, sentence 74
As for her looking a little younger than we do, what does that matter?
Who acts: we · What happens: look, do · To what, where: younger, matter
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 (we), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 looking | mark |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 looking | nmod:poss |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 does | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 little | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 younger | obl |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 looking | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 younger | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 looking | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 does | nsubj |
| 13 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 matter | det |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 does | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | younger | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | present | we | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | that matter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Eventuality |
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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