The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 93
It then suddenly occurred to him, that perhaps this was the bride his father had destined for him, and that the King had probably had her placed in this room in order to see how far Camaralzaman's aversion to marriage would withstand her charms.
Who acts: need, this, King, aversion, Camaralzaman · What happens: occur, be, destine, have, place, see · To what, where: heart, bride, room, charms · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (need, this, King, aversion), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 occurred | advmod |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 occurred | advmod |
| 4 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 occurred | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 destined | punct |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 destined | mark |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 bride | advmod |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 bride | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bride | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bride | det |
| 13 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 destined | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 destined | aux |
| 17 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 occurred | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 destined | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 had | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 had | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | advcl |
| 26 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 27 had | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 occurred | conj |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 had | obj |
| 29 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 her | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 room | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 room | det |
| 32 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 placed | obl |
| 33 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 36 see | mark |
| 34 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 in | fixed |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 see | mark |
| 36 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 room | acl |
| 37 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 far | advmod |
| 38 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 withstand | advmod |
| 39 | Camaralzaman | Camaralzaman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 aversion | nmod:poss |
| 40 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 39 Camaralzaman | case |
| 41 | aversion | aversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 withstand | nsubj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 marriage | case |
| 43 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 aversion | nmod |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 withstand | aux |
| 45 | withstand | withstand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 see | ccomp |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 charms | nmod:poss |
| 47 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 withstand | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | past | need | heart | then | suddenly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | is a | past | this | the bride | perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | destine | past · perfect · passive | the bride | for heart | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | past | the King | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | have | past | need not said here | bride | probably property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Patient | |||
| 6 | place | participle | this room | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in room=Destination | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 8 | withstand | would | Camaralzaman's aversion to marriage | aversion's charms | far property | tree rules | |||
| 9 | avert | Camaralzaman | to marriage | nom aversion «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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