The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 76
But the princess expected something of the sort and was on her guard.
Who acts: princess · What happens: expect, be · To what, where: something, guard
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 expected | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expected | nsubj |
| 4 | expected | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 expected | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sort | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sort | det |
| 8 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 something | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guard | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 guard | cop |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 guard | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 guard | nmod:poss |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expected | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past | the princess | something | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the princess not said here | princess's guard | tree rules |
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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