The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 42
"Why," continued the princess, "the most charming and beautiful young man lay sleeping beside me last night.
Who acts: charming · What happens: continue, lie, sleep · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Arabian Nights Entertainments» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charming), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 continued | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lay | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 charming | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 charming | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 charming | advmod |
| 12 | charming | charming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 man | cc |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charming | conj |
| 17 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 lay | xcomp |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 sleeping | obl |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 night | amod |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sleeping | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the charming and beautiful young man not said here | the princess | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie in a quote | past | the charming and beautiful young man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sleep in a quote | gerund | the charming and beautiful young man not said here | night | beside the nurse = nurse | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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