The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 90
Our fate would have been sealed if the princess, seeing our danger, had not attracted the attention of the genius to herself.
Who acts: princess, Our, genius · What happens: seal, see, not attract, fate, attend · To what, where: fate, danger, 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 (princess, Our, genius), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sealed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sealed | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sealed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 sealed | aux:pass |
| 6 | sealed | seal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 attracted | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 princess | det |
| 9 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 princess | acl |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 danger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 princess | punct |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 attracted | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 attracted | advmod |
| 17 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sealed | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 attention | det |
| 19 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attracted | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 genius | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 genius | det |
| 22 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 attention | nmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 genius | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seal | would · perfect · passive | Our fate | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the princess not said here | our danger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not attract a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fate | Our | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | attend | the genius to princess | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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