The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 10, sentence 93

Exhausted though she was, the princess at once ordered the little slave, who alone was uninjured, to bring her a cup of water, which she took in her hand.

Who acts: shout, little slave, cup · What happens: exhaust, be, order, bring, take · To what, where: princess, little slave, cup, shout, hand

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 (shout, little slave, cup), 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	Exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	7 princess	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 princess	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princess	cop
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 princess	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Exhausted	advcl
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	10 ordered	mark
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 ordered	advmod
10	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 princess	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 slave	det
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slave	amod
13	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ordered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 uninjured	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 uninjured	nsubj
16	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 who	advmod
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 uninjured	cop
18	uninjured	uninjured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slave	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bring	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bring	mark
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 uninjured	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 cup	det
24	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 water	case
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cup	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 took	nsubj
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	nsubj
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cup	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hand	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hand	nmod:poss
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 took	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Exhausted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	exhaust	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	shout	the princess				tree rules
3	order	past	shout not said here	the little slave			once property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slave=Theme
4	is	past	the little slave				uninjured property	tree rules
5	bring	to-infinitive	the little slave not said here	a cup of water	shout			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination cup=Theme
6	take	past	a cup of water			shout's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location

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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