The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 50
The tailor listened with attention, but his reply, instead of giving me consolation, only increased my trouble.
Who acts: tailor, reply, my · What happens: listen, give, increase, reply, trouble · To what, where: me, trouble
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 (tailor, reply, my), 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 tailor | det |
| 2 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 attention | case |
| 5 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 increased | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 increased | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reply | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increased | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 consolation | punct |
| 11 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 13 giving | mark |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 instead | fixed |
| 13 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 consolation | compound |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 giving | iobj |
| 15 | consolation | consolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reply | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 increased | punct |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 increased | advmod |
| 18 | increased | increase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 listened | conj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 increased | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the tailor | with attention | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | increase | participle | tailor's reply and giving consolation | my trouble | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer trouble=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reply | tailor | nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition 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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