The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 58
Bring your princess here and lay her down beside my prince.
Who acts: you · What happens: bring, lay down · To what, where: princess
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 (you), 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 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 princess | nmod:poss |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bring | obj |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Bring | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lay | cc |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Bring | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | obj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 lay | compound:prt |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 prince | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 prince | nmod:poss |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | imperative | you not said here | your princess | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | you not said here | princess | beside my prince | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme beside prince=Destination |
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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