The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
"Then restore him to his former shape," cried the Sultan. "
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: restore, cry · To what, where: prince, former shape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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 | _ | 3 restore | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 restore | advmod |
| 3 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 restore | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 shape | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shape | nmod:poss |
| 7 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 shape | amod |
| 8 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 restore | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 restore | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 restore | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sultan | det |
| 13 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore in a quote | infinitive | prince | prince's former shape | then | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to shape=Recipient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Sultan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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