The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 89
Soon, however, we had much greater cause for alarm, as the genius, having shaken off the princess, flew towards us.
Who acts: we · What happens: have, shake off, fly · To what, where: greater cause, princess
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 (we), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 had | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Soon | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 had | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 had | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 greater | advmod |
| 8 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 cause | amod |
| 9 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 alarm | case |
| 11 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cause | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 genius | punct |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 genius | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 genius | det |
| 15 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 having | punct |
| 17 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 had | conj |
| 18 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 having | xcomp |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shaken | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 had | conj |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | we | greater cause | for alarm; as the genius; however, soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | we not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake off | participle | we not said here | the princess | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fly | past | we not said here | towards us | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards we=Destination |
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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