The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 14
But what dangers can there be in the adventure which courage and a good sword cannot meet?"
Who acts: dangers · What happens: not be · To what, where: adventure
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 42. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dangers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 meet | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 meet | obj |
| 3 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 meet | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 meet | aux |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 meet | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 meet | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 adventure | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 adventure | det |
| 9 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meet | obl |
| 10 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 11 courage | det |
| 11 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meet | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sword | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sword | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sword | amod |
| 15 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 courage | conj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 meet | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 meet | advmod |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 meet | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | can | dangers | the adventure; there | meet property | 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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