The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 12
Maimoune lifted it a little and beheld the most beautiful youth she had ever seen.
Who acts: Maimoune · What happens: lift, behold, see · To what, where: slave, beautiful youth
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 (Maimoune), 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 | Maimoune | Maimoune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lifted | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beheld | cc |
| 7 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 beautiful | advmod |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 youth | amod |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beheld | obj |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 seen | advmod |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 youth | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | Maimoune | slave | a little obl:unmarked | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | behold | past | Maimoune not said here | the beautiful youth | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past · perfect | Maimoune | the beautiful youth not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer youth=Stimulus |
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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