The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 121
The enchantress went back to the Palace of Tears and said, "Now I have done what you wished."
Who acts: enchantress, you · What happens: go back, say, do, wish · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 enchantress | det |
| 2 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Palace | det |
| 7 | Palace | Palace | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tears | case |
| 9 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Palace | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 done | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 wished | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 wished | nsubj |
| 20 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | the enchantress | to the Palace of Tears result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the enchantress not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | the enchantress = enchantress | now | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | past | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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