The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 6, sentence 51
They seem to have pleasant manners," she added, "but you have no idea how funny they look.
Who acts: eyebrows, Sadie, you · What happens: seem, have, add, look · To what, where: pleasant manners, idea · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (eyebrows, Sadie, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seem | nsubj |
| 2 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 have | mark |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seem | xcomp |
| 5 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 manners | amod |
| 6 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seem | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 but | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 added | conj |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 idea | det |
| 17 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 funny | advmod |
| 19 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 look | xcomp |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 look | nsubj |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 have | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | eyebrows = eyebrow | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | have | to-infinitive | eyebrows = eyebrow not said here | pleasant manners | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manners=Patient | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Sadie | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | present | you | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 5 | look | present | eyebrows = eyebrow | funny property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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