The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 98
She started up, and was not a little amazed at seeing a young man beside her.
Who acts: princess · What happens: start up, not be, see · To what, where: young man
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 started | nsubj |
| 2 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 started | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 amazed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 amazed | cc |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 amazed | cop |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 amazed | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 amazed | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 started | parataxis |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 seeing | mark |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 amazed | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seeing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | princess | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | a little obl:unmarked; amazed property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | gerund | a young man | beside princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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