The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 63
When the prince and princess lay thus side by side, an animated dispute as to their respective charms arose between the fairy and the genius.
Who acts: prince, respective charms · What happens: lay, arise · To what, where: side
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, respective charms), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 lay | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 princess | cc |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prince | conj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 side | advmod |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dispute | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dispute | det |
| 13 | animated | animated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 dispute | amod |
| 14 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | parataxis |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 arose | mark |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 as | fixed |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 charms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | respective | respective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 charms | amod |
| 19 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 arose | nsubj |
| 20 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dispute | advcl |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 fairy | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairy | det |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arose | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 genius | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 genius | det |
| 26 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fairy | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the prince and princess | side | by side | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by side=Destination | |||
| 2 | arise | past | envoys's respective charms | between the fairy and the genius | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between fairy=Location |
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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