The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 107
So saying she took his hand and noticed her own ring on his finger, which made her wonder still more.
Who acts: princess, own ring · What happens: say, take, notice, make, wonder · To what, where: hand, own ring, finger, princess, more · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (princess, own ring), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 took | advcl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 noticed | cc |
| 8 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ring | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ring | amod |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 noticed | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 finger | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 finger | nmod:poss |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ring | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ring | acl:relcl |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obj |
| 19 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 wonder | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | princess | heart's hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | princess not said here | princess's own ring | heart's finger | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | make | past | princess's own ring | princess | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | infinitive | princess not said here | more | tree rules |
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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