The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 9, sentence 87
Where am I?" she said in a bewildered manner; "and how did I get here?"
Who acts: I, princess · What happens: be, say, bewilder, get · To what, where: bewildered manner · 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 (I, princess), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 said | advmod |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 manner | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 manner | det |
| 10 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 manner | amod |
| 11 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 get | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 get | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | princess | a bewildered manner | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in manner=Manner | ||||
| 3 | bewilder in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | get | past · do-support | I | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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