The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
Queen of Beauty rose and went to her chamber, from which she fetched a knife with some Hebrew words engraven on the blade.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: rise, go, fetch · To what, where: chamber, knife, blade
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 (Queen), 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 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 Beauty | case |
| 3 | Beauty | Beauty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Queen | nmod |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fetched | punct |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 fetched | obl |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 fetched | nsubj |
| 14 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knife | det |
| 16 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetched | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 engraven | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 words | det |
| 19 | Hebrew | hebrew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 words | amod |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 engraven | compound |
| 21 | engraven | engraven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetched | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 blade | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 blade | det |
| 24 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetched | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Queen of Beauty | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | Queen of Beauty not said here | Queen's chamber | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chamber=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fetch | past | Queen | a knife | the blade | with words engraven | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from which=Source |
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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