The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 81
"Mistress," replied the bird, "do what I tell you and nothing but good will come of it.
Who acts: Mistress, nothing · What happens: reply, do, tell, come · To what, where: bird, you · 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 (Mistress, nothing), 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 | _ | 2 Mistress | punct |
| 2 | Mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mistress | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mistress | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 what | acl:relcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 tell | iobj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 come | nsubj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 good | cc |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 nothing | conj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tell | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Mistress | the bird | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | infinitive | Mistress not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present | Mistress | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | future | nothing | of dinner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of it=Initial_Location |
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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