The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 18
Where have you hidden your musicians?" he asked the princess; "are they up in the air, or under the earth?
Who acts: you, Sultan, musicians · What happens: hide, ask, be · To what, where: musicians, princess, earth, air
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 (you, Sultan, musicians), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 hidden | advmod |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hidden | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hidden | nsubj |
| 4 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 musicians | nmod:poss |
| 6 | musicians | musician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hidden | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hidden | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 air | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 air | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 air | cop |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 air | nsubj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 they | compound:prt |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 earth | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 earth | cc |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 earth | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 earth | det |
| 25 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · perfect | you | your musicians | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | Sultan | the princess | the earth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | present | musicians = musician | the air | 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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