The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 111

She came near his couch and said, "Are you better to-day, my dear slave?

Who acts: enchantress, you · What happens: come, say, be · To what, where: couch · 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 (enchantress, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 couch	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 couch	nmod:poss
5	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 better	punct
10	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 better	cop
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 better	nsubj
12	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 said	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 day	case
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 to	punct
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 slave	punct
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 slave	nmod:poss
18	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 slave	amod
19	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 better	advcl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	enchantress	Sultan's couch			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near couch=Location
2	say speech: ask	past	enchantress not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	present	you		day	good property	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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