The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 72
"By what accident do you come here?" she asked again with a sigh. "
Who acts: you, madam · What happens: come, ask · 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 (you, madam), 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 | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 accident | case |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 accident | nsubj |
| 4 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 asked | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sigh | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sigh | det |
| 16 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · do-support | you | here | by accident | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by accident=Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | madam | again | with a sigh | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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