The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 23, sentence 99
From surprise she soon passed to admiration, and then to delight on perceiving how handsome and fascinating he was.
Who acts: princess, man · What happens: pass, delight, perceive, be · To what, where: surprise
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, man), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 surprise | case |
| 2 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 passed | advmod |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 admiration | case |
| 7 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 delight | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 delight | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 delight | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 delight | mark |
| 12 | delight | delight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 passed | conj |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 perceiving | mark |
| 14 | perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 delight | advcl |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 handsome | advmod |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 perceiving | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fascinating | cc |
| 18 | fascinating | fascinating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 handsome | conj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 was | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 perceiving | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | princess | surprise | to admiration; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from surprise=Initial_Location to admiration=Destination | |||
| 2 | delight | to-infinitive | princess not said here | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | perceive | gerund | princess not said here | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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