The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 42, sentence 96
When the Princess Parizade held in her hands the three wonders promised her by the old woman, she said to the bird: "All that is not enough.
Who acts: Princess Parizade, three wonders, Parizade, All · What happens: hold, promise, say, not be · To what, where: hands, Parizade, bird · 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 Parizade, three wonders, Parizade, All), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 held | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Parizade | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Parizade | compound |
| 4 | Parizade | Parizade | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 promised | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hands | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wonders | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 wonders | nummod |
| 11 | wonders | wonder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 promised | nsubj |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | iobj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 woman | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 promised | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 promised | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 bird | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 enough | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 enough | punct |
| 26 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 enough | nsubj |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 All | obj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 enough | cop |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 enough | advmod |
| 30 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 said | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | the Princess Parizade | Parizade's hands | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | the three wonders | Parizade | by the old woman | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Parizade | the bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | All | enough property | tree rules |
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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