The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 63
"Not at all," replied the bird, "it will make it all the closer."
Who acts: all, spoil · What happens: reply, make · To what, where: bird, friendship · 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 (all, spoil), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 all | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 closer | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 closer | det |
| 18 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 make | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | all | the bird | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | future | spoil | friendship | close property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
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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