The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 43, sentence 96
"You think I am mad," answered the princess, who perceived what was in his mind. "
Who acts: You, I, princess · What happens: think, be, answer, perceive · To what, where: mind · 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 (You, I, princess), 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 mad | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mad | cop |
| 6 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceived | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 perceived | nsubj |
| 14 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 mind | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 mind | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mind | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mind | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | You | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | I | mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | perceive | past | the princess | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Sultan's mind | 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.
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