The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 6
"But why not?" inquired the prince. "
Who acts: prince · What happens: not inquire
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 (prince), 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 | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 inquired | cc |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 inquired | advmod |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 inquired | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 not | punct |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 inquired | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not inquire speech: other | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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