The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 91
She then returned to the cage, and said: "Bird, there is still something else, where shall I find the Singing Tree?"
Who acts: princess, Bird · What happens: return, say, be, find · To what, where: something, Singing Tree · 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 (princess, Bird), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bird | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Bird | punct |
| 12 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 something | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 something | cop |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 is | advmod |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 said | ccomp |
| 18 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 something | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 find | punct |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 find | advmod |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 find | aux |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 find | nsubj |
| 23 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tree | det |
| 25 | Singing | Singing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Tree | compound |
| 26 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 find | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 find | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 something | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | princess | then | to the cage result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cage=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Bird | something | else property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find in a quote | shall | princess | the Singing Tree | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
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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