The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 11
The prince lay with his face half hidden by the coverlet.
Who acts: prince · What happens: lie, hide · To what, where: face half
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 half | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 half | nmod:poss |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 half | compound |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 3 lay | obl |
| 8 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 half | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 coverlet | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 coverlet | det |
| 11 | coverlet | coverlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hidden | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the prince | with prince's face half | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | prince's face half not said here | by the coverlet | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by coverlet=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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