The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 75
"Alas, prince," she said, with a deeper sigh than before, "you have guessed rightly in supposing me an unwilling prisoner in this gorgeous place.
Who acts: madam, you · What happens: say, guess, suppose, unwill · To what, where: madam · 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 (madam, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 prince | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 4 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prince | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sigh | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 sigh | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sigh | det |
| 12 | deeper | deep | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sigh | amod |
| 13 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 sigh | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guessed | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 guessed | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 guessed | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 guessed | aux |
| 20 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | conj |
| 21 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 20 guessed | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 supposing | mark |
| 23 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 guessed | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 supposing | obj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 prisoner | det |
| 26 | unwilling | unwill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 prisoner | amod |
| 27 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 supposing | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 place | case |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 place | det |
| 30 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 place | amod |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 prisoner | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | madam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | guess in a quote | present · perfect | you | rightly property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | gerund | you not said here | madam | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent i=Theme prisoner=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | unwill in a quote | gerund | 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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