The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 5, sentence 13

The fish answered nothing, and then she repeated her question, whereupon they all raised their heads together and answered very distinctly, "Yes, yes.

Who acts: fish, cook · What happens: answer, repeat, raise, question · To what, where: nothing, question, heads

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 (fish, cook), 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 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 answered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 repeated	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 repeated	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 repeated	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 repeated	nsubj
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 question	nmod:poss
11	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 repeated	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 raised	punct
13	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	16 raised	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 raised	nsubj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 they	det
16	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 repeated	parataxis
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 heads	nmod:poss
18	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 raised	obj
19	together	together	ADV	_	16 raised	advmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 answered	cc
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 raised	conj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 distinctly	advmod
23	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	21 answered	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Yes	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Yes	punct
26	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	21 answered	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Yes	punct
28	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	26 Yes	discourse
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the fish	nothing			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
2	repeat	past	cook	cook's question	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
3	raise	past	fish	fish's heads		together, whereupon property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	fish not said here			distinctly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	question		cook				nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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