The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 108
But as he still remained in a profound slumber she pressed a kiss on his cheek and soon fell fast asleep too.
Who acts: heart, princess · What happens: remain, press, fall · To what, where: profound slumber, kiss, cheek
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 (heart, princess), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 pressed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 remained | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remained | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 remained | advmod |
| 5 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pressed | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 slumber | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 slumber | det |
| 8 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 slumber | amod |
| 9 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remained | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pressed | nsubj |
| 11 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 kiss | det |
| 13 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 cheek | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pressed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 fell | advmod |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 pressed | conj |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 asleep | advmod |
| 21 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fell | xcomp |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 fell | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | heart | a profound slumber | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in slumber=Location | |||
| 2 | press | past | princess | a kiss | heart's cheek | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme | |||
| 3 | fall | past | princess not said here | asleep, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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