The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 61
In an incredibly short time Danhasch returned, bearing the sleeping princess.
Who acts: Danhasch · What happens: return, bear · To what, where: sleeping 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 (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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 time | det |
| 3 | incredibly | incredibly | ADV | _ | 4 short | advmod |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 6 | Danhasch | Danhasch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bearing | punct |
| 9 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 11 | sleeping | sleeping | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 princess | amod |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bearing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Danhasch | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | Danhasch not said here | the sleeping princess | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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