The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Opening, part 24, sentence 49
The nurse had no little trouble in escaping, and hurried off to the queen, to whom she related the whole story with tears in her eyes.
Who acts: nurse, little trouble, Princess · What happens: have, escape, hurry off, relate · To what, where: little trouble, whole story
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 (nurse, little trouble, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nurse | det |
| 2 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 trouble | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trouble | amod |
| 6 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 escaping | mark |
| 8 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 trouble | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hurried | cc |
| 11 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | parataxis |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 hurried | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 queen | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hurried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 whom | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 whom | case |
| 18 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 related | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 related | nsubj |
| 20 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 hurried | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 story | amod |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 related | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 tears | case |
| 25 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 story | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 tears | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the nurse | no little trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Patient | ||||
| 2 | escape | gerund | no little trouble not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | hurry off | past | to the queen result | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to queen=Result | |||||
| 4 | relate | past | Princess | the whole story | with tears in Princess's eyes | tree rules |
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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