The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 43
It is only just, as he has given us so much amusement."
What happens: be · To what, where: friend, us
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | cop |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 9 given | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 given | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 given | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 amusement | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 given | iobj |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 amusement | amod |
| 13 | amusement | amusement | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 amusement | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 amusement | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect · passive | friend | us | give 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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