The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 101
"A pain in my heart," she replied hastily, "obliged me to seek the aid of this little bottle.
Who acts: palace · What happens: reply, oblige, seek · To what, where: palace, aid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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 pain | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pain | det |
| 3 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 heart | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heart | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pain | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pain | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 obliged | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 obliged | punct |
| 14 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 obliged | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 seek | mark |
| 17 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 obliged | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 aid | det |
| 19 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seek | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bottle | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 bottle | det |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bottle | amod |
| 23 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 aid | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | palace | hastily property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | oblige in a quote | past | palace not said here | palace | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | palace not said here | the aid of this little bottle | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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