The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 47
"Madam," replied the pilgrim, "one must be hard indeed to please to find any fault.
Who acts: Madam, one · What happens: reply, be, please, find · To what, where: pilgrim, fault · 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 (Madam, one), 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 | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 2 | Madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Madam | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pilgrim | det |
| 7 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 hard | punct |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hard | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hard | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hard | cop |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 please | mark |
| 16 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hard | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 please | advcl |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 fault | det |
| 20 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 find | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Madam | the pilgrim | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pilgrim=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must | one | hard, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | please in a quote | to-infinitive | one not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | one not said here | any fault | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
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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