The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 14
"What lovely coloured water!" he exclaimed; "where is the spring, and how do you make the fountain rise so high?
Who acts: lovely coloured water, you, fountain · What happens: water, exclaim, be, make, rise · To what, where: spring, fountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 44. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lovely coloured water, you, fountain), 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 | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 water | nsubj |
| 3 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 4 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 water | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 9 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 spring | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 where | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 spring | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spring | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spring | det |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 exclaimed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 make | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 make | advmod |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 make | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 make | nsubj |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 exclaimed | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fountain | det |
| 23 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 make | xcomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 high | advmod |
| 26 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rise | xcomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | lovely coloured water | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | the spring | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | present · do-support | you | the fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rise in a quote | infinitive | the fountain not said here | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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