The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 11, sentence 1
Suddenly the princess shrieked, "I burn, I burn!" and death came to free her from her torments.
Who acts: princess, I, death · What happens: shriek, burn, come, torment · To what, where: princess, torments
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, I, death), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 shrieked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shrieked | nsubj |
| 4 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 burn | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 burn | nsubj |
| 8 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrieked | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burn | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 burn | nsubj |
| 11 | burn | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrieked | advcl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 burn | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 burn | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shrieked | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 her | advcl |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 torments | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 torments | nmod:poss |
| 22 | torments | torment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shriek | past | the princess | suddenly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | burn in a quote | present | I | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | burn in a quote | present | I | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | come | past | death | princess | princess's torments | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from torment=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | torment | princess | nom torment «state transitive»: poss=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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