The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 77
"Good dervish," answered the princess, "I feel in my heart that I shall succeed, and it only remains for me to ask you the way I am to go."
Who acts: Good dervish, heart, risk, way · What happens: answer, feel, succeed, remain, ask, go · To what, where: princess, heart, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good dervish, heart, risk, way), 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 | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dervish | amod |
| 3 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dervish | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 princess | det |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 feel | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 princess | acl:relcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feel | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 succeed | nsubj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 succeed | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 succeed | aux |
| 19 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 heart | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remains | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remains | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 remains | nsubj |
| 23 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 remains | advmod |
| 24 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 remains | obl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 ask | mark |
| 28 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 remains | advcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 ask | iobj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ask | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 am | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 way | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 go | mark |
| 35 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 am | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Good dervish | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | Good dervish = dervish | the princess not said here | my heart | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent princess=Theme in heart=Location | |||
| 3 | succeed in a quote | shall | my heart | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remain in a quote | present | risk | for Good dervish = dervish | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | risk not said here | the way | the princess = princess | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 6 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the way not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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