The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 76
"My dear mistress," replied the bird, "your cooks are very good and you can safely leave all to them, except that you must be careful to have a dish of cucumbers, stuffed with pearl sauce, served with the first course."
Who acts: dear mistress, cooks, you · What happens: reply, be, leave, have, stuff, serve · To what, where: bird, all, cooks, dish, pearl sauce · 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 (dear mistress, cooks, 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mistress | amod |
| 4 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistress | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistress | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 good | punct |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cooks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cooks | cook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 good | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 good | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 good | advmod |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leave | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 leave | aux |
| 20 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 21 leave | advmod |
| 21 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 good | conj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 leave | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leave | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 careful | punct |
| 26 | except | except | ADP | _ | 31 careful | mark |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 careful | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 careful | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 careful | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 careful | cop |
| 31 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leave | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 careful | xcomp |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 dish | det |
| 35 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 cucumbers | case |
| 37 | cucumbers | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dish | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 stuffed | punct |
| 39 | stuffed | stuff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dish | acl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 sauce | case |
| 41 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sauce | compound |
| 42 | sauce | sauce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stuffed | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 served | punct |
| 44 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 sauce | acl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 course | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 course | det |
| 47 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 48 course | amod |
| 48 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 served | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | My dear mistress | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your cooks | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | can | you | all | cooks = cook | safely property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent all=Theme to they=Recipient | ||
| 4 | is in a quote | must | you | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a dish of cucumbers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Patient | ||||
| 6 | stuff in a quote | participle | a dish of cucumbers not said here | with pearl sauce | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sauce=Theme | ||||
| 7 | serve in a quote | participle | pearl sauce not said here | with the first course | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with course=Theme |
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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