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The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 1, sentence 58

Her father had given her the best masters in philosophy, medicine, history and the fine arts, and besides all this, her beauty excelled that of any girl in the kingdom of Persia.

Who acts: father, beauty · What happens: give, excel · To what, where: best masters, Dinarzade, philosophy, kingdom

This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, beauty), 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

nmod:possnsubjauxobjdetamodobjcaseoblpunctconjpunctconjccdetamodconjpunctcccasedet:predetoblpunctnmod:possnsubjconjmarkcasedetadvclcasedetoblcasenmodpunctrootHerPRONfatherNOUNhadAUXgivenVERBherPRONtheDETbestADJmastersNOUNinADPphilosophyNOUN,PUNCTmedicineNOUN,PUNCThistoryNOUNandCCONJtheDETfineADJartsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJbesidesADPallDETthisPRON,PUNCTherPRONbeautyNOUNexcelledVERBthatSCONJofADPanyDETgirlNOUNinADPtheDETkingdomNOUNofADPPersiaPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HerherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs2 fathernmod:poss
2fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing4 givennsubj
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 givenaux
4givengiveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 givenobj
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 mastersdet
7bestgoodADJDegree=Sup8 mastersamod
8mastersmasterNOUNNumber=Plur4 givenobj
9ininADP_10 philosophycase
10philosophyphilosophyNOUNNumber=Sing4 givenobl
11,,PUNCT_12 medicinepunct
12medicinemedicineNOUNNumber=Sing10 philosophyconj
13,,PUNCT_14 historypunct
14historyhistoryNOUNNumber=Sing10 philosophyconj
15andandCCONJ_18 artscc
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 artsdet
17finefineADJDegree=Pos18 artsamod
18artsartNOUNNumber=Plur10 philosophyconj
19,,PUNCT_27 excelledpunct
20andandCCONJ_27 excelledcc
21besidesbesidesADP_23 thiscase
22allallDETPronType=Tot23 thisdet:predet
23thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem27 excelledobl
24,,PUNCT_23 thispunct
25herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 beautynmod:poss
26beautybeautyNOUNNumber=Sing27 excellednsubj
27excelledexcelVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 givenconj
28thatthatSCONJ_31 girlmark
29ofofADP_31 girlcase
30anyanyDETPronType=Ind31 girldet
31girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing27 excelledadvcl
32ininADP_34 kingdomcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 kingdomdet
34kingdomkingdomNOUNNumber=Sing27 excelledobl
35ofofADP_36 Persiacase
36PersiaPersiaPROPNNumber=Sing34 kingdomnmod
37..PUNCT_4 givenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1givepast · perfectDinarzade's fatherthe best mastersDinarzadephilosophy and medicine and history and the fine artsvn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient master=Theme
2excelpastDinarzade's beautythe kingdom of Persiabesides thisvn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in kingdom=Eventuality

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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