The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 66
"But what is the matter with the princess that she needs the dervish's prayers?" asked another voice.
Who acts: princess, voice, dervish · What happens: be, need, ask, pray · To what, where: matter, prayers · 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 (princess, voice, dervish), 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 | _ | 6 matter | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 matter | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 matter | det |
| 6 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 princess | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 needs | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 needs | nsubj |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 princess | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dervish | det |
| 14 | dervish | dervish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 dervish | case |
| 16 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 needs | obj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 matter | punct |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | with the princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | princess | the dervish's prayers | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot prayer=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | another voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | the dervish | nom prayer «act intransitive»: 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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