The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 23
"Alas," answered the princess, "I am too weak even to hold the sabre.
Who acts: Alas · What happens: answer, be, hold · To what, where: princess, sabre · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alas), 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 Alas | punct |
| 2 | Alas | Alas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 weak | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 weak | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 weak | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 weak | cop |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 weak | advmod |
| 13 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 answered | conj |
| 14 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 hold | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hold | mark |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 weak | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sabre | det |
| 18 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Alas | the princess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Alas | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold in a quote | to-infinitive | Alas not said here | the sabre | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sabre=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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