The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 66
Princess Parizade did not answer directly, but at length she raised her eyes, and replied that there was nothing wrong.
Who acts: Princess, nothing · What happens: not answer, raise, reply, be · To what, where: eyes, length · 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 (Princess, nothing), 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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answer | nsubj |
| 2 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Princess | flat |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 answer | advmod |
| 5 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 answer | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 raised | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 raised | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 raised | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 raised | nsubj |
| 12 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answer | parataxis |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 raised | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 raised | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 was | mark |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 replied | ccomp |
| 21 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 was | nsubj |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 nothing | amod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | Princess | directly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | princess | princess's eyes | length | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent eye=Theme at length=Destination | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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