The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 114
"What joy to hear you speak!" answered the queen. "
Who acts: queen, you · What happens: joy, hear, speak, answer · 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 (queen, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 joy | nsubj |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 joy | acl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 speak | nsubj |
| 7 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hear | xcomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 joy | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joy in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | infinitive | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: express | past | the queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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