The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 44, sentence 5
"This is only a simple country house, sire," she said, "suitable to people like ourselves, who live a quiet life.
Who acts: This, princess, people · What happens: be, say, live · To what, where: simple country house, quiet life · 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 (This, princess, people), 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 | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 house | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 house | cop |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 house | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 6 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sire | punct |
| 10 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 suitable | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 suitable | punct |
| 17 | suitable | suitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 people | case |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 suitable | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 ourselves | case |
| 21 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 people | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 live | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 live | nsubj |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 people | acl:relcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 life | det |
| 26 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 life | amod |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 live | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | a simple country house and sire | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | people like ourselves | a quiet life | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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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