The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 10
The light in the prince's room surprised her, and without disturbing the slave, who slept across the threshold, she entered the room, and approaching the bed was still more astonished to find it occupied.
Who acts: light, Maimoune, slave, approaching · What happens: surprise, disturb, sleep, enter, approach, be · To what, where: Maimoune, slave, threshold, room, bed, light
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (light, Maimoune, slave, approaching), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 light | det |
| 2 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 room | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 prince | case |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 light | nmod |
| 8 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 surprised | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 entered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 entered | cc |
| 12 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 13 disturbing | mark |
| 13 | disturbing | disturb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 entered | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 slave | det |
| 15 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 disturbing | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 slept | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 slept | nsubj |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 slave | acl:relcl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 threshold | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 threshold | det |
| 21 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slept | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 disturbing | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 entered | nsubj |
| 24 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 surprised | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 entered | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 astonished | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 astonished | cc |
| 29 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 astonished | csubj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 bed | det |
| 31 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 approaching | obj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 astonished | cop |
| 33 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 astonished | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 35 astonished | advmod |
| 35 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 surprised | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 find | mark |
| 37 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 astonished | xcomp |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 find | obj |
| 39 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 find | xcomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surprise | past | the light in the prince's room | Maimoune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | disturb | gerund | Maimoune not said here | the slave | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus slave=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | the slave | the threshold | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | enter | past | Maimoune | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | ||||
| 5 | approach | gerund | the bed | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | past | approaching | still | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | find | to-infinitive | approaching not said here | light | occupied property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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