The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 12
"Yes," returned the princess, "but without me your sleep would probably have lasted till the day of judgment.
Who acts: your · What happens: return, last, sleep · To what, where: princess, sleep
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 43. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (your), 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 returned | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 returned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 lasted | cc |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lasted | obl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lasted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 lasted | aux |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 lasted | advmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lasted | aux |
| 18 | lasted | last | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 returned | conj |
| 19 | till | till | ADP | _ | 21 day | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lasted | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 judgment | case |
| 23 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 day | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the princess | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | |||||
| 2 | last in a quote | would · perfect · passive | your sleep | day | without brothers = brother; probably property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | |||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | your | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=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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