The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 3
"No, I have not forgotten," replied the bird, "but what you ask is very difficult.
Who acts: bird, you · What happens: not forget, reply, ask, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bird, you), 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 | _ | 7 forgotten | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 forgotten | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 forgotten | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 forgotten | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 forgotten | advmod |
| 7 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 forgotten | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 difficult | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 difficult | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 difficult | cop |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 difficult | advmod |
| 21 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget in a quote | present · perfect | the bird = bird | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the bird | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | difficult 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg128/43/3/