The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 27
"The king, her father, has carefully shielded this treasure from the vulgar gaze, and has taken every precaution to keep her from the sight of everyone except the happy mortal he may choose to be her husband.
Who acts: king, Danhasch · What happens: shield, take, keep, choose, be, sight · To what, where: treasure, vulgar gaze, precaution, imagination, sight, happy mortal
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 (king, Danhasch), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 shielded | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shielded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 father | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 king | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 shielded | aux |
| 9 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 10 shielded | advmod |
| 10 | shielded | shield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 treasure | det |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shielded | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 gaze | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gaze | det |
| 15 | vulgar | vulgar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gaze | amod |
| 16 | gaze | gaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shielded | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 taken | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 taken | cc |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 taken | aux |
| 20 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 shielded | conj |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 precaution | det |
| 22 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 taken | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 taken | advcl |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 keep | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 sight | det |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 everyone | case |
| 30 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 sight | nmod |
| 31 | except | except | ADP | _ | 34 mortal | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mortal | det |
| 33 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mortal | amod |
| 34 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 everyone | nmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 choose | nsubj |
| 36 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 choose | aux |
| 37 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 mortal | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 husband | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 husband | cop |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 husband | nmod:poss |
| 41 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 choose | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shield in a quote | present · perfect | the king and imagination's father | this treasure | the vulgar gaze | carefully property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | take in a quote | present · perfect | the king and imagination's father not said here | every precaution | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | the king and imagination's father not said here | imagination | the sight of everyone | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Beneficiary from sight=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | choose in a quote | may | Danhasch | the happy mortal not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Danhasch not said here | imagination's husband | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sight in a quote | everyone | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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