The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 115
Then the prince drew him up all dripping wet, but the slave begged leave to change his clothes first, and as soon as the prince consented hurried off just as he was to the palace.
Who acts: prince, slave · What happens: draw up, beg, change, consent, hurry off, be · To what, where: man, leave, clothes, palace
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, slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg128:1965): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 drew | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 wet | advmod |
| 8 | dripping | dripping | ADV | _ | 9 wet | advmod |
| 9 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 drew | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 slave | det |
| 13 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begged | nsubj |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 15 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 begged | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 change | mark |
| 17 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 leave | acl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 change | obj |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 change | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hurried | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hurried | cc |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 soon | advmod |
| 24 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 hurried | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 consented | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 consented | nsubj |
| 28 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 soon | advcl |
| 29 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 begged | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 hurried | compound:prt |
| 31 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 was | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 was | mark |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 was | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 hurried | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 palace | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 palace | det |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hurried | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw up | past | the prince | man | then | wet property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the slave | leave | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | the slave not said here | prince's clothes | first property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 4 | consent | past | the prince | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hurry off | past | the slave not said here | the palace | soon property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to palace=Destination | |||
| 6 | be | past | prince | vn exist-47.1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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