The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 8, sentence 86
"Princess," I replied, "I see it is only fear of the genius that makes you act like this.
Who acts: I, genius, that, you · What happens: reply, see, be, make, act · To what, where: fear, you · 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 (I, genius, that, 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 | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Princess | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replied | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fear | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fear | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 fear | advmod |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 genius | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 genius | det |
| 17 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fear | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 makes | nsubj |
| 19 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fear | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 makes | obj |
| 21 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 makes | xcomp |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 this | case |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 act | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | I | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | genius | fear | of the genius | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make in a quote | present | that | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | act in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | like this | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like this=Attribute |
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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