The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 95
So saying he drew off a fine ring which the princess wore on her finger, and replaced it by one of his own.
Who acts: princess · What happens: say, draw off, wear, replace · To what, where: fine ring, finger, ring · 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 (princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 drew | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ring | amod |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 wore | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wore | nsubj |
| 12 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ring | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 finger | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 finger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wore | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replaced | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 replaced | cc |
| 18 | replaced | replace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drew | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replaced | obj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 replaced | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 own | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 own | nmod:poss |
| 24 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | draw off | past | a fine ring | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wear | past | the princess | a fine ring | princess's finger | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | |||
| 4 | replace | past | ring | by one of heart's own | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
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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