The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 43

"My good woman," said the princess pointing to a sofa, "come and sit beside me.

Who acts: good woman, princess · What happens: say, point, come, sit · To what, where: princess, sofa · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 41. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good woman, princess), 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	_	4 woman	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 woman	nmod:poss
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 woman	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 princess	det
9	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 princess	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 sofa	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 sofa	det
13	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointing	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	parataxis
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sit	cc
18	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	conj
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 sit	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My good woman	the princess			tree rules
2	point	gerund	the princess not said here		a sofa		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sofa=Recipient
3	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sit in a quote	infinitive				beside My good woman = woman	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location

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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