The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 80
Quick as thought the princess assumed the form of a serpent and gave battle to the scorpion, who, finding he was getting the worst of it, turned himself into an eagle and took flight.
Who acts: princess, scorpion · What happens: think, assume, give, find, get, turn · To what, where: form, battle, scorpion, flight, serpent · 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 (princess, scorpion), 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 | Quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Quick | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assumed | nsubj |
| 6 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 assumed | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 serpent | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 serpent | det |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 form | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assumed | conj |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 scorpion | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scorpion | det |
| 17 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finding | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 finding | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 finding | punct |
| 21 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 scorpion | acl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 getting | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 getting | aux |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 finding | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 worst | det |
| 26 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 getting | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 worst | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 turned | punct |
| 30 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 assumed | parataxis |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 turned | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 eagle | case |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 eagle | det |
| 34 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 turned | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 turned | conj |
| 37 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Quick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | assume | past | the princess | the form of a serpent | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the princess not said here | battle | the scorpion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent battle=Theme to scorpion=Recipient | |||
| 4 | find | gerund | the scorpion | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | get | past · progressive | scorpion | bad property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | turn | past | scorpion | into a eagle result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into eagle=Result | ||||
| 7 | take | past | flight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | |||||
| 8 | form | a serpent | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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