The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 102
"Where she lives I do not know," answered the unhappy prince, "but she goes every day at sunrise to see if the slave can yet speak to her, after she has beaten me."
Who acts: woman, unhappy prince, slave · What happens: live, not know, answer, go, see, speak · To what, where: woman, unhappy prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, unhappy prince, slave), 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 | _ | 4 lives | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 lives | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | advcl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 know | advmod |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lives | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 13 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prince | amod |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 goes | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 goes | nsubj |
| 19 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 sunrise | case |
| 23 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 goes | advcl |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 speak | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 slave | det |
| 28 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 speak | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 speak | aux |
| 30 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 31 speak | advmod |
| 31 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | ccomp |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 her | case |
| 33 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 speak | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 beaten | punct |
| 35 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 beaten | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 beaten | nsubj |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 beaten | aux |
| 38 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 speak | parataxis |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 beaten | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 goes | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the unhappy prince = prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the unhappy prince | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | woman | day; sunrise | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | the slave | woman | yet | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | beat in a quote | present · perfect | woman | the unhappy prince = prince | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme |
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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