The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 94
"You need not do that," said the bird, when she had returned to ask counsel. "
Who acts: You, bird, princess, counsel · What happens: not do, say, return, ask · To what, where: that · 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 (You, bird, princess, counsel), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 returned | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 returned | aux |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 ask | mark |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 returned | advcl |
| 19 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ask | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | present | You | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past · perfect | princess | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | counsel | 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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