The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 8
"The very greatest danger," answered the dervish. "
Who acts: greatest danger · What happens: answer · To what, where: dervish
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 (greatest danger), 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 | _ | 5 danger | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 danger | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 greatest | advmod |
| 4 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 danger | amod |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 danger | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 danger | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dervish | det |
| 10 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the greatest danger | the dervish | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dervish=Eventuality |
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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