The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 41, sentence 82
"My dear sister," answered the prince, "accidents only happen to unlucky people, and I hope that I am not one of them.
Who acts: dear sister, accidents · What happens: answer, happen, hope, not be · To what, where: prince, one · 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 (dear sister, accidents), 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 sister | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sister | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sister | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 happen | punct |
| 12 | accidents | accident | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 happen | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 happen | advmod |
| 14 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 people | case |
| 16 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 happen | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hope | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hope | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 hope | nsubj |
| 21 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 happen | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 one | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 hope | ccomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My dear sister | the prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | happen in a quote | present | accidents | to unlucky people | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hope in a quote | present | My dear sister = sister | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | present | My dear sister = sister | one | of sisters = sister | tree rules |
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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