The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 48
It is beautiful, comfortable and well ordered, and it is impossible to imagine anything more lovely than the garden.
Who acts: fault · What happens: be, order, imagine · To what, where: anything
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 (fault), 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 | 3 beautiful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 comfortable | punct |
| 5 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beautiful | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ordered | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ordered | advmod |
| 8 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beautiful | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 impossible | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 impossible | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 impossible | expl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 impossible | cop |
| 13 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beautiful | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 imagine | mark |
| 15 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 impossible | csubj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 imagine | obj |
| 17 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 lovely | advmod |
| 18 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 anything | amod |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 garden | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 garden | det |
| 21 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lovely | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | fault | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | fault not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | order | participle | fault not said here | well property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | fault not said here | impossible property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | imagine | to-infinitive | anything | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=Theme |
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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